Social vulnerability and environmental change along urban-rural interfaces

Urban-Rural Interfaces: Linking People and Nature

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 185-200

  Schelhas, John ^a   Hitchner, Sarah ^b   Johnson, Cassandra ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental change; Participatory planning techniques; Rural water management; Social vulnerability; Urban rural interfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 85071391518     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2136/2012.urban-rural.c11     Document Type: Chapter

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