Governing sustainability: a dialogue between Local Agenda 21 and transition management

Local Environment

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 939-955

  Wittmayer, J M ^a   van Steenbergen, F ^a   Rok, A ^b   Roorda, C ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Team Water   (Germany)

Author keywords

governance for sustainability; Local Agenda 21; local governance; sustainability transition; transition management

Indexed keywords

AGENDA 21; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; STATE ROLE; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84930599598     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: 14696711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2015.1050658     Document Type: Article

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