Contracts or scripts? A critical review of the application of institutional theories to the study of environmental change

Ecology and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Hotimsky, Samy ^a   Cobb, Richard ^a   Bond, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Environmental change; Institutions; Ontology

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS;

EID: 33745921482     PISSN: 17083087     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-01718-110141     Document Type: Article

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