Participation and/or/versus sustainability? Tensions between procedural and substantive goals in two local agenda 21 processes in Sweden and Austria

European Environment

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 212-227

  Feichtinger, Judith ^a   Pregernig, Michael ^b  

^a Centre for Social Innovation   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Austria; Local agenda 21; Local governance; Participation; Sustainable development; Sweden

Indexed keywords

AGENDA 21; DECISION MAKING; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; SUSTAINABILITY;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HELSINGBORG; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SKANE; SWEDEN; VIENNA; WORLD;

EID: 23844435316     PISSN: 09610405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eet.386     Document Type: Article

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