It's who you know: Social capital, social networks, and watershed groups

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 871-886

  Floress, Kristin ^a   Prokopy, Linda Stalker ^b   Allred, Shorna Broussard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Social capital; Social networks; Watershed groups

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HUMAN CAPITAL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; WATERSHED;

EID: 79961138841     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: 15210723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941920903493926     Document Type: Article

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