Ecological modernization in the UK: Rhetoric or reality?

European Environment

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 344-361

  Revell, Andrea ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecological modernization; Environmental policy; New Labour; UK

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; MODERNIZATION; POLICY MAKING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 29344440483     PISSN: 09610405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eet.399     Document Type: Article

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