Public Participation and Environmental Justice in Biodiversity Governance in Finland, Greece, Poland and the UK

Environmental Policy and Governance

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 330-342

  Paloniemi, Riikka ^a   Apostolopoulou, Evangelia ^b   Cent, Joanna ^c   Bormpoudakis, Dimitrios ^d,e   Scott, Anna ^e   Grodzińska Jurczak, Malgorzata ^c   Tzanopoulos, Joseph ^d   Koivulehto, Miska ^a   Pietrzyk Kaszyńska, Agata ^c   Pantis, John D ^f  

^a FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^f ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Biodiversity policy; Distributive justice; European integration; Procedural justice; Stakeholder

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; POLICY APPROACH; STAKEHOLDER;

FINLAND; GREECE; POLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84944732880     PISSN: 1756932X     EISSN: 17569338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eet.1672     Document Type: Article

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