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SEA and planning: ‘ownership’ of strategic environmental assessment by the planners is the key to its effectiveness

Gernot Stoeglehner Institute of Spatial Planning and Rural Development, Department of Spatial, Landscape and Infrastructure Sciences, BOKU-University Vienna, Peter Jordan Str. 82, 1190, Vienna, Austria E-mail: [email protected]
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A. L. Brown Urban Research Program, Griffith School of Environment, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
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Lone B. Kørnøv Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Pages 111-120 | Published online: 20 Feb 2012

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