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Regional environmental assessment (REA) and local Agenda 21 implementation

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The implementation of sustainable development requires several support instruments. One of the major instruments in the Rio Declaration to support this process has been environmental assessment that has been given considerable emphasis as to its potential ability to help achieve more sustainable forms of development.

Regional environmental assessment (REA) has shown to be effective in supporting local sustainable development process. Selected environmental assessment methods have been␣used to improve the REA exercise and provide reliable data for decision-making not only to correct environmental problems due to past unsustainable social-economic developments but also help local governments to implement Agenda 21 (AG21) plans and projects.

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Acknowledgements

The present study is based upon the PhD thesis developed by the author at the Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. I should like to thank very much my supervisor Professor Brian D. Clark for providing important guidance, knowledge and support during the development of the Ph.D. thesis. I should also like to thank Dr. Peter Pfeiffer for providing relevant orientation in field of ZOPP planning and municipal environmental management. I am also grateful to Roberta Daudt for her most importantly help for the designing and elaborating figures and maps in the present study.

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Braun, R. Regional environmental assessment (REA) and local Agenda 21 implementation. Environ Dev Sustain 10, 19–39 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-006-9036-5

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