Social learning in LEADER: Exogenous, endogenous and hybrid evaluation in rural development

Sociologia Ruralis

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 103-119

  High, Chris ^a   Nemes, Gusztáv ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOGENOUS GROWTH; INNOVATION; LEARNING; MANAGEMENT; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL PLANNING; STAKEHOLDER;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 34250362226     PISSN: 00380199     EISSN: 14679523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2007.00430.x     Document Type: Review

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