Reconnecting nature, farming and society: Environmental cooperatives in the Netherlands as institutional arrangements for creating coherence

Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 85-101

  Renting, Henk ^a   Van Der Ploeg, Jan Douwe ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Environmental cooperatives; Socio economic; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013015183     PISSN: 1523908X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jepp.75     Document Type: Article

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