Enhancing the sustainability efforts of local governments

International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development

Volumn 1, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 46-64

  River, Su Wild ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Action research; Antinomy; Australia; Facilitating; Grounded theory; Information; Inside; Local government; Outside; Symbolic interactionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250669811     PISSN: 17408822     EISSN: 17408830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISD.2005.008081     Document Type: Article

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