Seeing the urban forest through the trees: Building depth through qualitative research

Arboriculture and Urban Forestry

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 304-308

  McLean, Daniel D ^a   Jensen, Ryan R ^b   Hurd, Amy R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Qualitative analysis; Quantitative analysis; Research methodology

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY POLICY; POLICY MAKING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; URBAN FORESTRY;

EID: 34648833607     PISSN: 02785226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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