Urban environmentalism and activists' networks in China: The cases of Xiangfan and Shanghai

Conservation and Society

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 141-153

  Xie, Lei ^a   Ho, Peter ^b,c  

^a POLICY STUDIES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Campaign; China; ENGOs; Environmental movement; Personal network

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873672792     PISSN: 09724923     EISSN: 09753133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.49208     Document Type: Article

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