Forest planning across Europe: the spatial scale, tools, andinter-sectoral integration in land-use planning

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1384-1411

  Cullotta, Sebastiano ^a   Bončina, Andrej ^b   Carvalho Ribeiro, Sonia M ^c   Chauvin, Christophe ^d   Farcy, Christine ^e   Kurttila, Mikko ^f   Maetzke, Federico G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^d Cemagref   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^f FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

forest management planning; forest program; inter sectoral planning; multi scale planning; multi topic planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929841394     PISSN: 09640568     EISSN: 13600559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2014.927754     Document Type: Article

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