A critical note on 'eco-civic regionalisation' as the basis for local government boundaries in Australia

Australian Geographer

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 289-300

  Dollery, Brian ^a   Crase, Lin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amalgamation; Communities of interest; Decentralisation theorem; Eco civic regionalisation; Local government boundaries; Principle of subsidiarity

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARY; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; POLITICAL BOUNDARY; REGIONALIZATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NEW SOUTH WALES; WORLD;

EID: 12344327564     PISSN: 00049182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0004918042000311322     Document Type: Article

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