The political significance of local agenda 21: The early stages of some European experience

Local Environment

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-50

  Voisey, Heather ^a   Beuermann, Christiane ^b   Sverdrup, Liv Astrid ^c   O'Riordan, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute for Ecological Economy Research   (Germany)

^c FRIDTJOF NANSEN INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENDA 21; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; GOVERNMENT ROLE; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

GERMANY; NORWAY; UK;

EID: 0029728902     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549839608725479     Document Type: Article

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