Participatory action research for enironmental health: Encountering Feire in the urban barrio

Journal of Urban Affairs

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-100

  González, Erualdo Romeo ^a   Lejano, Raul P ^a   Vidales, Guadalupe ^a   Conner, Ross F ^a   Kidokoro, Yuki ^b   Fazeli, Bahram ^b   Cabrales, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Communities for a Better Environment ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; LEARNING; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; URBAN AREA;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846688225     PISSN: 07352166     EISSN: 14679906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9906.2007.00324.x     Document Type: Article

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