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Building Community Based Initiatives in Rural Coastal Communities. Staff Paper 95.2.
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Behr, Chris; Lamb, Greg; Miller, Al; Sadowske, Sue; Shaffer, Ron – 1995
In rural coastal communities, trade-offs between conserving and developing environmentally sensitive resources are acute. At the community level, part-time volunteers and citizen officials are asked to make complex decisions based on ambiguous and frequently contradictory "scientific" evidence of economic and environmental relationships.…
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