Assessing representation at different scales of decision making: Rethinking local is better

Policy Studies Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 649-670

  Rockloff, Susan F ^a   Moore, Susan A ^b  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Natural resource management; Public participation; Representation; Representative democracy; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DEMOCRACY; GEOGRAPHICAL THOUGHT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33845519056     PISSN: 0190292X     EISSN: 15410072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2006.00196.x     Document Type: Article

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