The added value of transnational cooperation: Towards a new framework for evaluating learning and policy change

Planning Practice and Research

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 347-372

  Colomb, Claire ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; POLICY MAKING; REGIONAL PLANNING; SPATIAL PLANNING;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 36749025732     PISSN: 02697459     EISSN: 13600583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02697450701666712     Document Type: Article

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