Building social capital in groups: Facilitating skill development for natural resource management

Rural Society

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 248-257

  Kilpatrick, Sue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Farmer groups; Farmer learning; Natural resource management; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009644939     PISSN: 10371656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/rsj.351.17.3.248     Document Type: Article

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