Improving community indicator systems: Injecting more social science into the folk movement

Planning Theory and Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 13-32

  Sawicki, David S ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 84937378280     PISSN: 14649357     EISSN: 1470000X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649350220117780     Document Type: Article

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