"Through the Kids... We Connected With Our Community": Children as Catalysts of Social Capital

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 344-368

  Wood, Lisa ^a   Giles Corti, Billie ^b   Zubrick, Stephen R ^c   Bulsara, Max K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (Australia)

Author keywords

children; family; neighborhoods; sense of community; social capital

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHILD; DATA SET; LITERATURE REVIEW; NEIGHBORHOOD; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RESIDENT POPULATION; SENSE OF PLACE; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN DESIGN;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84875498758     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: 1552390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916511429329     Document Type: Article

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