The Importance of Place: Re-territorialising Embeddedness

Sociologia Ruralis

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 325-348

  Bowen, Sarah ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DAIRY FARMING; MARKET DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL NETWORK; TERRITORIAL MANAGEMENT;

FRANCE;

EID: 80053114132     PISSN: 00380199     EISSN: 14679523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2011.00543.x     Document Type: Article

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