Systemic Trends in Disaster Vulnerability: Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers in North Carolina

Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-17

  Montz, Burrell E ^a   Allen, Thomas R ^a   Monitz, Gary I ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Migrant and seasonal farmworkers; natural hazards; North Carolina; vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898788530     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19444079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1944-4079.1070     Document Type: Article

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