'Respect the life of the countryside': The Country Code, government and the conduct of visitors to the countryside in post-war England and Wales

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 336-350

  Merriman, Peter ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Country Code; Countryside; England; Government; Media; Wales

Indexed keywords

GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POST-WAR; SELF GOVERNMENT;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33745252830     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2005.00175.x     Document Type: Article

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