People's perception about participatory developmental programs: Lessons from the mountain risk engineering program in the Indian Central Himalaya

Environmentalist

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-47

  Agrawal, Devendra Kumar ^a   Samal, Prasanna Kumar ^a   Farooquee, Nehal Ahmed ^a   Palni, Lok Man Singh ^a  

^a G B PANT INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT   (India)

Author keywords

Developmental programs; Himalaya; Mountain Risk Engineering; Peoples' perception

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PERCEPTION;

INDIA;

EID: 0037800472     PISSN: 02511088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022939525507     Document Type: Article

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