Vancouver's promise of the world's first sustainable Olympic Games

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 882-905

  Holden, Meg ^a   MacKenzie, Julia ^b   VanWynsberghe, Robert ^c  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b University of British Columbia ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUTURE PROSPECT; LANGUAGE; NATIONAL PLANNING; OLYMPIC GAMES; PLANNING PRACTICE; POLICY APPROACH; SUSTAINABILITY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; VANCOUVER;

EID: 65949120724     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: 14723425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c2309r     Document Type: Article

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