Navigating conflicting landscape aspirations: Application of a photo-based Q-method in Transylvania (Central Romania)

Land Use Policy

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 408-422

  Milcu, Andra Ioana ^a   Sherren, Kate ^b   Hanspach, Jan ^a   Abson, David ^a   Fischer, Joern ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cultural landscape; Landscape preference; Modernization; Multifunctional; Q methodology; Tradition

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; CULTURAL TRADITION; LAND MARKET; MODERNIZATION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; RURAL LANDSCAPE; RURAL POLICY; ECONOMIC GROWTH; LIFESTYLE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPH; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SUSTAINABILITY;

ROMANIA; TRANSYLVANIA;

EID: 84904727349     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.06.019     Document Type: Article

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