Resistant place identities in rural Charleston County, South Carolina: Cultural, environmental, and racial politics in the Sewee to Santee area

Human Ecology Review

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-16

  Johnson, Cassandra Y ^b   Halfacre, Angela C ^a   Hurley, Patrick T ^a  

^a School of Business

^b US Forest Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental decision making; Political ecology; Rural gentrification; Sense of place; South Carolina low country

Indexed keywords

EID: 56249145996     PISSN: 10744827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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