Local agenda 21: 'Meaningful and effective ' participation?

Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions: The Promise and Limits of Participatory Processes for the Quality of Environmentally Related Decision-making

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 165-182

  Coenen, Frans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 79952353009     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9325-8_10     Document Type: Chapter

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