The importance of the "not-so-cool" sectors: Creative solutions to reconcile environmental and economic sustainability within a floodplain

Local Environment

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 295-308

  Antrobus, Derek ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creativity; Environmental discourse; Flood risk; Multi scalar governance; Urban sustainability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC REGENERATION; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN PLANNING;

ENGLAND; SALFORD [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77951282635     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: 14696711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549831003677654     Document Type: Article

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