Emotional conflicts in rational forestry: Towards a research agenda for understanding emotions in environmental conflicts

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 33, Issue , 2013, Pages 104-111

  Buijs, Arjen ^a   Lawrence, Anna ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affect; Conflict; Emotions; Forestry; Rationality; Sociology

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; CONFLICT; EMOTIONS; RATIONALITY; SOCIOLOGY;

RESEARCH; TIMBER;

FORESTRY;

FORESTRY; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 84878847367     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2012.09.002     Document Type: Article

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