Volunteer stream monitoring and local participation in natural resource issues

Human Ecology Review

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 177-185

  Overdevest, Christine ^a   Orr, Cailin Huyck ^a   Stepenuck, Kristine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Citizen science; Civic participation; Learning; Social capital; Stream monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 4444367175     PISSN: 10744827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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