Sustainability: Demands on Policy

Journal of Public Policy

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 303-318

  Dovers, Stephen R ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; PLANNING PRACTICE; POLICY MAKING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0030324460     PISSN: 0143814X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0143814x00007789     Document Type: Article

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