"Learning is our Achilles heel". Conditions for long-term environmental policy integration in Swedish regional development programming

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1023-1042

  Storbjörk, Sofie ^a   Isaksson, Karolina ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH NATIONAL ROAD AND TRANSPORT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

environmental policy integration; implementation barriers; organisational mainstreaming; policy learning; regional development

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; LEARNING; NATIONAL PLANNING; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84900003156     PISSN: 09640568     EISSN: 13600559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2013.779232     Document Type: Article

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