Implementation failure of the forest expansion policy in Flanders (Northern Belgium) and the policy learning potential

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 515-522

  Van Gossum, Peter ^a   Ledene, Liselot ^a   Arts, Bas ^b   De Vreese, Rik ^c   Verheyen, Kris ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NGO ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Advocacy coalition framework; Double loop learning; Implementation analysis and policy failure; Single loop learning

Indexed keywords

ADVOCACY COALITION FRAMEWORK; AGRICULTURAL SECTOR; BELGIUM; CONSERVATION POLICY; DETRENDED CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DOUBLE-LOOP LEARNING; FLANDERS; FOREST EXPANSION; IMPLEMENTATION ANALYSIS; IMPLEMENTATION ANALYSIS AND POLICY FAILURE; LEARNING POTENTIAL; LEGISLATIVE CHANGES; SINGLE-LOOP LEARNING; TOP-DOWN MODELS;

COASTAL ZONES;

CONSERVATION;

EID: 50549092075     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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