Overcoming the 'value-action gap' in environmental policy: Tensions between national policy and local experience

Local Environment

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 257-278

  Blake, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; SUSTAINABILITY;

HUNTINGDONSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032735896     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549839908725599     Document Type: Article

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