Investigating social acceptability for public forest management policies as a function of social factors

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 148-155

  Jones, Nikoleta ^a   Gleridou, Chrysi ^a   Dimitrakopoulos, Panayiotis G ^a   Evangelinos, Konstantinos I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Co management; Social capital; Social networks; State management; Trust

Indexed keywords

CO-MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL CAPITALS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; STATE MANAGEMENT; TRUST;

FORESTRY;

NETWORK MANAGEMENT;

ARCHIVAL PAPERS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 80255137120     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2011.07.015     Document Type: Article

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