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Role of CBOs in Resilience Building: Good Practices and Challenges

Author : Thongkholal Haokip

Published in: Development and Disaster Management

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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This paper examines the role of community based organisations in resilience building within the North Eastern States of India. There is a plethora of indigenous practices and value systems in the largely egalitarian societies of the North East that help them in facing disasters without much assistance from the state.

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Title: Role of CBOs in Resilience Building: Good Practices and Challenges
Author: Thongkholal Haokip
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Book: Development and Disaster Management
Print ISBN: 978-981-10-8484-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-10-8485-0

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8485-0_19

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