Assessing Sustainability Perspectives in Rural Innovation Projects Using Q-Methodology

Sociologia Ruralis

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 70-91

  Hermans, Frans ^a,c   Kok, Kasper ^a   Beers, Pieter J ^a,d   Veldkamp, Tom ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d TransForum Agro and Groen   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION; INNOVATION; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL LANDSCAPE; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84855350874     PISSN: 00380199     EISSN: 14679523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2011.00554.x     Document Type: Article

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