Sustainable development as symbolic commitment: Declaratory politics and the seductive appeal of ecological modernisation in the European Union

Environmental Politics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 297-317

  Baker, Susan ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; EUROPEAN UNION; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 34147138375     PISSN: 09644016     EISSN: 17438934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09644010701211874     Document Type: Article

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