Beauty, friends, power, money: Navigating the impacts of community woodlands

Geographical Journal

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 268-279

  Lawrence, Anna ^a   Ambrose Oji, Bianca ^a  

^a FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community forestry; Evaluation; Evidence based policy; Impact assessment; Social forestry; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY FORESTRY; COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING; EMPOWERMENT; FORESTRY POLICY; PUBLIC SECTOR; SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; WOODLAND;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84938988954     PISSN: 00167398     EISSN: 14754959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12094     Document Type: Article

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