Growing cohesive communities one favour at a time: Social exclusion, active citizenship and time banks

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 699-706

  Seyfang, Gill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; SELF HELP; SOCIAL EXCLUSION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0142213971     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00475     Document Type: Article

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