Access for all? barriers to accessing woodlands and forests in Britain

Local Environment

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 375-396

  Morris, Jake ^a   O'Brien, Elizabeth ^a   Ambrose Oji, Bianca ^a   Lawrence, Anna ^a   Carter, Claudia ^a   Peace, Andrew ^a  

^a FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Access; Accessibility; Diversity; Equality; Forests

Indexed keywords

ACCESS RESTRICTION; ACCESSIBILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FOREST; GREENSPACE; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TYPOLOGY; WOODLAND;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79960520937     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: 14696711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2011.576662     Document Type: Article

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