Abstract
This article deals with the current European discussion on regional and environmental policy issues concerning sustainable regional development with a special focus on Austrian regions. The paradigm of sustainable development is heavily discussed within policy and research. The implementation on the regional level needs more than a theoretical background without having any idea of fostering sustainable strategies. Therefore the here presented paper focuses on real world examples of regional strategies supervised by institutional actors. The analysis of these institutional actors has provided a new perspective of an integrated top-down and bottom-up stimulated sustainable regional development process.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 113-132 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Zeitschrift für angewandte Umweltforschung |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |