The changing focus of England's Community Forest programme and its use of a green infrastructure approach to multi-functional landscape planning

International Journal of Sustainable Society

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 431-450

  Mell, Ian C ^a  

^a East Cambridgeshire District Council   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community forestry; Funding; Green infrastructure; Multi functionality; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 81255203719     PISSN: 17562538     EISSN: 17562546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSSOC.2011.043641     Document Type: Article

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