Conflicting environmental visions of the rural: Windfarm development in mid Wales

Sociologia Ruralis

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 271-288

  Woods, Michael ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAND USE CONFLICT; RURAL PLANNING; RURAL POLICY; WIND POWER;

UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 0038142511     PISSN: 00380199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9523.00245     Document Type: Article

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