A research agenda for data and scale issues in Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 479-491

  João, Elsa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data; Data quality; Research agenda; Scale effects; Spatial scale; Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA); Temporal scale; Tiering

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

DATA QUALITY; RESEARCH AGENDA; SCALE EFFECTS; SPATIAL SCALE; STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT (SEA); TEMPORAL SCALE;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS;

DATA QUALITY; DECISION MAKING; FUTURE PROSPECT; RESEARCH; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT;

EID: 34249730985     PISSN: 01959255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2007.02.009     Document Type: Article

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