How do we make sense of significance? Indications and reflections on an experiment

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 180-189

  Lyhne, Ivar ^a   Kørnøv, Lone ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

scoping; screening; Sense making; significance; strategic environmental assessment

Indexed keywords

RESEARCH; STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84881669905     PISSN: 14615517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14615517.2013.795694     Document Type: Article

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