Compensation in Swedish infrastructure projects and suggestions on policy improvements

Nature Conservation

Volumn 11, Issue , 2015, Pages 113-127

  Persson, Jesper ^a   Larsson, Anders ^a   Villarroya, Ana ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental compensation; Infrastructure; Inventory; Planning; Policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944382031     PISSN: 13146947     EISSN: 13143301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3897/natureconservation.11.4367     Document Type: Article

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