Hot spots and not spots: Addressing infrastructure and service provision through combined approaches in rural Scotland

Sustainability

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1719-1741

  Skerratt, Sarah ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community resilience; Interpretive policy analysis; Narrative analysis; Rural services; Scotland

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867150698     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su2061719     Document Type: Article

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