The mental health costs of human displacement: A natural experiment involving indigenous Indian conservation refugees

World Development Perspectives

Volumn 2, Issue , 2016, Pages 25-33

  Snodgrass, Jeffrey G ^a   Upadhyay, Chakrapani ^b   Debnath, Debashis ^c   Lacy, Michael G ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Government Postgraduate College   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF FOREST MANAGEMENT   (India)

Author keywords

Conservation; Displacement; Food and water security; Health; India; Livelihoods; Poverty; Resilience; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 85002328267     PISSN: 24522929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2016.09.001     Document Type: Article

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