Wind energy policies in the Netherlands: Institutional capacity-building for ecological modernisation

Environmental Politics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 92-112

  Breukers, Sylvia ^a   Wolsink, Maarten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION; ENERGY POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; LIBERALIZATION; PLANNING PROCESS; POLICY MAKING; SPATIAL PLANNING; WIND POWER;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33847719930     PISSN: 09644016     EISSN: 17438934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09644010601073838     Document Type: Article

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