Weighing in on scale: Synthesizing disciplinary approaches to scale in the context of building interdisciplinary resource management

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 921-929

  Silver, Jennifer J ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Governance; Natural resource management; Paradigm; Resilience; Scale; Social ecological systems

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; NATURAL RESOURCE; POWER RELATIONS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 56349114495     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: 15210723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941920701617809     Document Type: Article

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