Knowledge brokerage - potential for increased capacities and shared power in impact assessment

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Volumn 39, Issue , 2013, Pages 26-36

  Partidario, Maria Rosario ^a,b   Sheate, William R ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b Imperial College London ^*  (Portugal)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d London 1E The Chandlery   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brokerage; Knowledge; Participation; Power; SEA; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

CARBON FOOTPRINT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

BROKERAGE; COLLABORATIVE PLANNING; KNOWLEDGE; PARTICIPATION; POWER; PUBLIC PARTICIPATION; RESPONSIBILITY SHARING; STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT;

PLANNING;

DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; KNOWLEDGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 84872376439     PISSN: 01959255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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