Community perceptions of plantation forestry: The association between place meanings and social representations of a contentious rural land use

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue , 2013, Pages 121-136

  Anderson, Nerida M ^a,b   Williams, Kathryn J H ^a,b   Ford, Rebecca M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Land use conflict; Place meaning; Plantation forestry; Rural landscape; Social representation theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875514420     PISSN: 02724944     EISSN: 15229610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2013.02.001     Document Type: Article

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