Evaluating governance for local sustainability: online tools for self-assessment

Progress in Industrial Ecology

Volumn 2, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 440-452

  Joas, Marko ^a   Evans, Bob ^b   Theobald, Kate ^b  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

evaluation; governance; Local Agenda 21; local government; policy; sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547753710     PISSN: 14768917     EISSN: 14788764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/pie.2005.007819     Document Type: Article

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