Managing urban wellbeing in rural areas: The potential role of online communities to improve the financing and governance of highly valued nature areas

Land

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 437-459

  Bijker, Rixt A ^a   Mehnen, Nora ^a   Sijtsma, Frans J ^a   Daams, Michiel N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Governance; Nature; Online communities; Rural; Urban; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995764947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2073445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/land3020437     Document Type: Article

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