Social networks in natural resource management: What is there to learn from a structural perspective?

Ecology and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Bodin, Örjan ^a   Crona, Beatrice ^a   Ernstson, Henrik ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Co management; Natural resource management; Social networks; Structure

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; COMANAGEMENT; NATURAL RESOURCE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL NETWORK;

EID: 33846056949     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-01808-1102r02     Document Type: Article

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