A Participatory Assessment of NRM Capacity to Inform Policy and Practice: Cross-Scale Evaluation of Enabling and Constraining Factors

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 775-793

  Leith, Peat ^a   Jacobs, Brent ^b   Brown, Peter R ^c   Nelson, Rohan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

capacity; cross scale research; legitimacy; livelihoods analysis; natural resource policy

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; LANDOWNER; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; NATURAL RESOURCE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 84862630269     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: 15210723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2011.637548     Document Type: Article

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