Framing community resilience through mobility and gender

Journal of Disaster Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 554-562

  Otsuki, Kei ^a   Jasaw, Godfred Seidu ^a   Lolig, Victor ^b  

^a UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b University for Development Studies (UDS)   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Community resilience; Gender; Livelihood diversification; Mobility; Network; Social relationship

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

COMMUNITY RESILIENCES; GENDER; LIVELIHOOD DIVERSIFICATION; LIVELIHOOD STRATEGIES; POLICY IMPLICATIONS; QUALITATIVE CASE STUDIES; RESOURCE MOBILIZATION; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 84905165551     PISSN: 18812473     EISSN: 18838030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20965/jdr.2014.p0554     Document Type: Article

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