Implementation from above: The ecology of power in Sweden's environmental governance

Governance

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 319-337

  Lundqvist, Lennart J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

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EID: 0039250179     PISSN: 09521895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0952-1895.00163     Document Type: Article

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