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The integration of the environmental dimension into sectoral and regional policies constitutes a dominant concern of the current EU strategy for sustainable development. Thus, physical planning as an instrument of environmental policy and its combination with environmental planning, both at a policy as well as implementation level is a key pursuit in almost all European countries. In Greece, the adoption of a concept about a rational and unified approach of physical and environmental planning has met with many difficulties. The aim of this paper is to contribute towards a critical approach of recent developments, mainly in the field of the institutional framework for spatial and environmental planning in Greece.
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Beriatos, E. Environmental Policy and Spatial Planning in Greece. Institutional Aspects. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution: Focus 4, 433–444 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:WAFO.0000044816.09096.31
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/B:WAFO.0000044816.09096.31
- environment
- Greece
- institutional cooperation
- legal framework
- spatial planning