Best Practices and Policy Transfer in Spatial Planning

Planning Practice and Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 103-116

  Stead, Dominic ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; EUROPEAN UNION; PLANNING PRACTICE; POLICY MAKING; REGIONAL POLICY; SPATIAL PLANNING;

EUROPE;

EID: 84859587057     PISSN: 02697459     EISSN: 13600583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2011.644084     Document Type: Article

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