Grassroots community engagement: The key to success in a community building program

Rural Society

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 155-164

  O’meara, Peter ^a   Pendergast, Cathy ^b   Robinson, Anske ^b  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community building; Evaluation programs; Governance structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009600434     PISSN: 10371656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/rsj.351.17.2.155     Document Type: Article

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