Capacity of local development planning in Slovenia: Strengths and weaknesses of local sustainable development strategies

Lex Localis

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 547-574

  Deželan, Tomaž ^a   Maksuti, Alem ^a   Uršič, Matjaž ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Local Agenda 21; Local sustainable development strategy; Slovenia; Sustainability assessment; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904389493     PISSN: 15815374     EISSN: 1855363X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4335/12.3.547-573(2014)     Document Type: Article

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