Neighbors Helping Neighbors: An Examination of the Social Capital Mobilization Process for Community Resilience to Environmental Disasters

Journal of Applied Social Science

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 209-237

  LaLone, Mary B ^a  

^a RADFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

community r.; community based research; emergency d. planning; environmental disasters; social c.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887418000     PISSN: 19367244     EISSN: 19370245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1936724412458483     Document Type: Article

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