Urban environmental management in Botswana: Toward a theoretical explanation of public policy failure

Environmental Management

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 19-30

  Toteng, Elisha N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

Author keywords

Bureaucratic and administrative centrarism; Decision making; Elite theory; Environmental policy; Power; Urban environmental management

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

PUBLIC POLICY;

FUEL;

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; URBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POLICY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN AREA;

BOTSWANA; CITY PLANNING; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CROWDING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GOVERNMENT; HOUSING; HUMANS; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC POLICY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SANITATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

BOTSWANA;

EID: 0034972668     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002670010203     Document Type: Article

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