Sustainable urban development and the multi-Level transition perspective

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 36-50

  Nææss, Petter ^a   Vogel, Nina ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Landscape level constraints; Multi level perspective; Multi segmented regimes; Sustainability; Transition theory; Urban development

Indexed keywords

LAND USE PLANNING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

DENMARK;

EID: 84867745586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22104224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2012.07.001     Document Type: Article

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