Community-Centered Climate Planning: Using Local Knowledge and Communication Frames to Catalyze Climate Planning in Texas
- Award ID(s):
- 1952196
- Publication Date:
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10350706
- Journal Name:
- Journal of the American Planning Association
- Volume:
- 88
- Issue:
- 1
- Page Range or eLocation-ID:
- 97 to 112
- ISSN:
- 0194-4363
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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