Managing rural change and competing rationalities: Insights from conflicting rural storylines and local policy making in Ireland

Planning Theory and Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 9-32

  Scott, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Contested ruralities; Housing

Indexed keywords

GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HOUSING; LANDSCAPE PROTECTION; POLICY MAKING; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL PLANNING; RURAL POLICY; STAKEHOLDER; TERRITORIAL PLANNING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 40749101099     PISSN: 14649357     EISSN: 1470000X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649350701843689     Document Type: Article

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