Top-down and Europe-wide versus bottom-up and intra-regional identification of key issues for sustainability impact assessment

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1168-1176

  Dilly, Oliver ^a   Hüttl, Reinhard F ^a  

^a BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioenergy; Cluster analysis; European Policy; Land use; LAU; National Scale; NUTS; Regional perspective; Scale transition; Sensitive regions; Stakeholder involvement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASHORE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 70350566580     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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