Environmental Social Work: Accounting for Gender in Climate Disasters

Australian Social Work

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 218-233

  Alston, Margaret ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accounting for Gender in Climate Disasters; Environmental Social Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878668139     PISSN: 0312407X     EISSN: 14470748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0312407X.2012.738366     Document Type: Article

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