Sustainable local development and environmental governance: A strategic planning experience

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Ioppolo, Giuseppe ^a   Cucurachi, Stefano ^b   Salomone, Roberta ^a   Saija, Giuseppe ^a   Shi, Lei ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Environmental governance; Environmental management; Environmental planning; Participatory model; Sustainable competitiveness

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LEARNING; LOCAL PLANNING; POLICY MAKING; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ITALY;

EID: 84960380445     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su8020180     Document Type: Article

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