Getting to "we": Examining the relationship between geographic scale and ingroup emergence in collaborative watershed planning

Human Ecology Review

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 30-43

  Cheng, Antony S ^a   Daniels, Steven E ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative planning; Conflict management; Group identity; Scale; Stakeholder analysis; Watershed planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 21344465426     PISSN: 10744827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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