The opportunities and challenges of social work interventions in disaster situations

International Social Work

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 659-672

  Dominelli, Lena ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disaster interventions; green social work; humanitarian aid; post disaster; reconstruction; risk; social work practice; Sri Lanka; sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940669117     PISSN: 00208728     EISSN: 14617234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020872815598353     Document Type: Article

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