Community-Derived Indicator Domains for Social Resilience to Water Quality Decline in a Great Barrier Reef Catchment, Australia

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 421-439

  Gooch, Margaret ^a   Butler, James R A ^a,b   Cullen Unsworth, Leanne C ^a,b   Rigano, Donna ^a   Manning, Chris ^c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c Townsville Water and Waste   (Australia)

Author keywords

adaptive capacity; adaptive co management; Great Barrier Reef; indicators; social resilience; water quality

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CATCHMENT; COMANAGEMENT; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL NETWORK; WATER QUALITY;

AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND; TOWNSVILLE;

EID: 84859566744     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: 15210723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2011.608183     Document Type: Article

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