Working with communities-of-place: Complexities of empowerment

Local Economy

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 320-338

  Skerratt, Sarah ^a   Steiner, Artur ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

community empowerment; community engagement; community resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876431666     PISSN: 02690942     EISSN: 14709325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269094212474241     Document Type: Article

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