Bottom-up environmental decision making taken seriously: Integrating stakeholder perceptions into scenarios of environmental change

Human Ecology Review

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 87-95

  Kontogianni, Areti ^a,b   Tziritis, Ilias ^a   Skourtos, Michalis ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Aegean ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Environmental conflicts; Integrated coastal zone management; Risk perceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344482862     PISSN: 10744827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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