Partnerships in action: Strategies for the development of voluntary community groups in urban parks

Leisure Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 305-325

  Jones, Robert ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PARTNERSHIP APPROACH; URBAN PLANNING;

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

EID: 33748310595     PISSN: 02614367     EISSN: 14664496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0261436022000030623     Document Type: Article

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