Falling through the cracks: Limits to an instrumental rational role for environmental information in planning

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1263-1276

  Hills, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; REGIONAL PLANNING;

BRANDENBURG; CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; WORLD;

EID: 22944460836     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a3740     Document Type: Article

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