Questioning Psychosocial Resilience After Flooding and the Consequences for Disaster Risk Reduction

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 711-728

  Crabtree, Andrew ^a,b  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^b ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Disaster risk reduction; Flooding; India; Livelihood loss; MDGs; Mental health; Resilience

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FLOODING; HEALTH RISK; MENTAL HEALTH; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; NATURAL DISASTER; POLICY APPROACH; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL IMPACT; VILLAGE;

BIHAR; INDIA;

EID: 84881029578     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-013-0297-8     Document Type: Article

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