Delivering the goods: Scaling out results of natural resource management research

Ecology and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2002, Pages

  Harrington, Larry ^a   White, Jeffrey ^e   Grace, Peter ^b   Hodson, David ^e   Hartkamp, Agnes Dewi ^c   Vaughan, Christopher ^d   Meisner, Craig ^e  

^a INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER CIMMYT   (Mexico)

^b SINCLAIR KNIGHT MERZ   (Australia)

^c Seeds and Pulses   (Netherlands)

^d CO MET Directorate of Environmental Affairs ^*  (Namibia)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Conservation tillage; Diffusion of research; Environments; Geographic information systems; Mexico; Natural resource management; Participatory research; Scaling out; Simulation models; South Asia; Southern Africa; Technology transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249094807     PISSN: 17083087     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/es-00294-050219     Document Type: Article

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