Small-town sustainability: Prospects in the second modernity

European Planning Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1545-1565

  Mayer, Heike ^a   Knox, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS-BORDER RELATIONS; ENTREPRENEUR; ENVIRONMENTALISM; GLOBALIZATION; GRASSROOTS LEVEL; MODERNITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SMALL TOWN; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 77956728702     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2010.504336     Document Type: Article

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