Small-Scale urban nature parks: Why should we care?

Leisure Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 195-200

  Baur, Joshua W R ^a   Tynon, Joanne F ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREENSPACE; POLICY MAKING; RESEARCH WORK; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL NETWORK;

EID: 77949336505     PISSN: 01490400     EISSN: 15210588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490400903547245     Document Type: Article

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