Multilevel Governance, Decentralization and Environmental Prioritization: How is it working in rural development policy in Scotland?

Environmental Policy and Governance

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 399-411

  Yang, Anastasia L ^a,b,c   Rounsevell, Mark D A ^b,c   Haggett, Claire ^b  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c EU SPARD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decentralization; Environment; Multilevel governance; Policy analysis; Qualitative methods; Regionalization; Rural development; Scotland

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZATION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POLICY APPROACH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGIONALIZATION; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL POLICY; RURAL POLITICS;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84955194683     PISSN: 1756932X     EISSN: 17569338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eet.1690     Document Type: Article

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