Volunteering for land care - A typology of civil society organizations in Austria, Germany and Switzerland as the basis for establishing new initiatives

Eco.mont

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 21-28

  Penker, Marianne ^a   Mühlmann, Pamela ^b   Muhar, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b Team Water   (Germany)

Author keywords

Austria; Biocultural diversity; Civil society organizations; Cultural landscapes; Germany; Land care; Switzerland; Traditional landscapes; Volunteering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924758746     PISSN: 2073106X     EISSN: 20731558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1553/ecomont-6-2s21     Document Type: Article

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