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Author: | Schleicher-Tappeser, R. |
Title: | Assessing Sustainable Development in the European Union: The Sustainable Quality Management® Approach in the Context of Structural Funds |
Journal: | Greener Management International
2002 : WINTER, 36, p. 51-66 |
Index terms: | DEVELOPMENT EUROPE EUROPEAN UNION QUALITY |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | New concepts and tools for defining coherent systems of policy objectives and for evaluating actions and programmes are essential for the development of new forms of governance in Europe. The concept of sustainable development also points in this direction; the obligation to conceive and implement all European policies and programmes in accordance with the principles of sustainable development makes the development of appropriate assessment and management tools even more urgent. In order to be useful in multi- level European governance structures they have to fulfill a number of conditions. |
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