Urban parks, environmental justice, and voluntarism: The distribution of friends of the parks groups in Milwaukee County

Environmental Justice

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 70-76

  Holifield, Ryan ^a   Williams, Kathleen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIME; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; GREENBELT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; NEIGHBORHOOD; URBAN AREA; VOLUNTARY APPROACH;

MILWAUKEE COUNTY; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84902476332     PISSN: 19394071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/env.2013.0043     Document Type: Article

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