Public perception of locally unwanted facilities in Hong Kong: Implications for conflict resolution

Local Environment

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 851-869

  Lam, Kin Che ^a   Woo, Lai Yan ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Conflict resolution; Environmental governance; Locally unwanted land uses; NIMBY

Indexed keywords

LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MITIGATION; PERCEPTION; POLICY MAKING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONG KONG;

EID: 70349659696     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: 14696711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549830903160621     Document Type: Article

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