Practicality, positionality, and emancipation: Reflections on participatory action research with a watershed partnership

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 577-598

  Ferreyra, Cecilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Academic Research; Environmental governance; North America; Participatory action research; Post normal science; Watershed partnership

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845482669     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11213-006-9044-2     Document Type: Article

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