Empowering communities through evaluation: Some lessons from rural Spain

Community Development Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 53-67

  Díaz Puente, José M ^a,b   Montero, Adolfo Cazorla ^a   De Los Ríos Carmenado, Ignacio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; EMPOWERMENT; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; RURAL AREA; RURAL DEVELOPMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 57849098766     PISSN: 00103802     EISSN: 14682656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cdj/bsm008     Document Type: Article

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