Think globally, act locally?: Local climate change and energy policies in sweden and the UK

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 25-40

  Collier, Ute ^a   Löfstedt, Ragnar E ^b  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENERGY POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL CHANGE; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; LOCAL INITIATIVE;

SWEDEN; UK;

EID: 0031107117     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-3780(96)00025-8     Document Type: Article

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