The EU's double-track pursuit of sustainable development in the 2000s: How Lisbon and sustainable development strategies ran past each other

International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 99-108

  Steurer, Reinhard ^a   Berger, Gerald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Environmental policy integration (EPI); Horizontal policy integration; Lisbon Strategy; Sustainable development strategy

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EUROPEAN UNION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INTEGRATED APPROACH; SOCIAL POLICY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRADE-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS;

EUROPE;

EID: 79956124804     PISSN: 13504509     EISSN: 17452627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2011.559958     Document Type: Article

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