Stakeholder engagement in social learning to resolve controversies over land-use change to plantation forestry

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 175-190

  Leys, Andrea J ^a   Vanclay, Jerome K ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive co management; Diagnostic framework; Evaluation; Participatory modelling; Pesticide eco toxicology; Socio ecological system dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952043930     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-010-0132-6     Document Type: Article

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