Empowerment of individuals and realization of community agency: Applying action research to climate change responses in Australia

Action Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 71-91

  Hall, Nina L ^a   Taplin, Ros ^b   Goldstein, Wendy ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agency; Australia; Climate change; Grassroots; Participatory Action Research (PAR)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949349912     PISSN: 14767503     EISSN: 17412617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476750309335203     Document Type: Article

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