Social networks, identification and participation in an environmental movement: Low-medium cost activism within the British Columbia wilderness preservation movement

Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 413-452

  Tindall, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 0036869083     PISSN: 00084948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-618x.2002.tb00628.x     Document Type: Article

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