Focussing in on focus groups: Effective participative tools or cheap fixes for land use policy?

Land Use Policy

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 684-694

  Scott, Alister ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deliberation; Focus groups; Participation; Qualitative research; Reflexivity

Indexed keywords

EMPOWERMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LAND USE PLANNING; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PLANNING METHOD; POLICY APPROACH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 79957914631     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2010.12.004     Document Type: Article

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