Was This Just for Show? Discursive Opening and Closure in a Public Participatory Process

Environmental Communication

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 409-426

  Ångman, Elin ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

community meeting; discursive closure; facilitation; Natural Resource Management; public participation; Sweden participatory process

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882718595     PISSN: 17524032     EISSN: 17524040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2013.804429     Document Type: Article

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