Supporting Cooperative Forest Management among Small-Acreage Lifestyle Landowners in Southeast Queensland, Australia

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 745-761

  Meadows, John ^a   Herbohn, John ^a   Emtage, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

forest restoration; neighbor neighbor interaction; peer mentoring; resource pooling; rural residential estate; social capital; urbanization

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COOPERATIVE SECTOR; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT RESTORATION; LANDHOLDING; LANDOWNER; RURAL LANDSCAPE; SOCIAL CAPITAL; URBANIZATION;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84878519260     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: 15210723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2012.719586     Document Type: Article

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