Effectiveness of strategic environmental assessment - the significance of learning

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 133-144

  Jha Thakur, Urmila ^a   Gazzola, Paola ^b   Peel, Deborah ^c   Fischer, Thomas B ^a   Kidd, Sue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Context; Effectiveness; Individual learning; Organisational learning; SEA; SEA methodology; Skills and knowledge; Spatial planning

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; LEARNING; SPATIAL PLANNING; STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 69749118723     PISSN: 14615517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3152/146155109X454302     Document Type: Article

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