Accountability in Networked Governance: Learning from a case of landscape-scale forest conservation

Environmental Policy and Governance

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 172-187

  Jedd, Theresa ^a   Bixler, R Patrick ^b  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Accountability; Collaborative governance; Networks; Social network analysis; Transboundary conservation

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; CONSERVATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORK; TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION;

CANADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84932192505     PISSN: 1756932X     EISSN: 17569338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eet.1670     Document Type: Article

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