A new vanguard for the environment: Grass-roots ecosystem management as a new environmental movement

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 237-259

  Weber, Edward P ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen participation; Collaboration; Consensus; Environmental movement; Folk knowledge; Grass roots ecosystem management; Ideologies; Institutions; Natural resources; Public management; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTALISM; LOCAL PARTICIPATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034089773     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: 15210723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/089419200279081     Document Type: Article

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