Institutional capacity-building in urban planning and policy-making for sustainable development: Success or failure?

Planning Practice and Research

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 185-206

  Polk, Merritt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; NATURE CONSERVATION; POLICY MAKING; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY;

SWEDEN;

EID: 79957853997     PISSN: 02697459     EISSN: 13600583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2011.560461     Document Type: Article

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