Toward a social ecology of scale: Collective action, design for health, and landscape praxis

Landscape Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 106-120

  Rios, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Obesity prevention; Placemaking; Scale; Social ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251640728     PISSN: 02772426     EISSN: 15532704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/lj.30.1.106     Document Type: Article

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