Community engagement and social licence to operate

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 188-197

  Schirmer, Jacki ^b,c   Vanclay, Frank ^d  

^a Lain)   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

community forestry; natural resource management; public participation; social forestry; social license to operate

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRACTICE; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; NATURAL RESOURCE; STAKEHOLDER;

AUSTRALIA; CANADA; NEW BRUNSWICK; TASMANIA;

EID: 84905093415     PISSN: 14615517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14615517.2014.927108     Document Type: Article

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