Review of a land use planning programme through the soft systems methodology

Land Use Policy

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 187-203

  Nidumolu, Uday Bhaskar ^a,b   de Bie, C A J M ^a   van Keulen, Herman ^b   Skidmore, Andrew K ^c   Harmsen, Karl ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b National Remote Sensing Agency   (India)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (CSSTEAP)   (India)

Author keywords

IMSD; Land use planning; Soft systems methodology

Indexed keywords

LAND USE PLANNING; PLANNING THEORY;

EID: 33645067113     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2004.08.003     Document Type: Article

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