Serendipity is not a strategy: The impact of national climate programmes on greenhouse-gas emissions

Area

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 418-430

  Kerr, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate policy; Greenhouse gas emissions; National climate programmes; Quantitative analysis

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GREENHOUSE GAS; KYOTO PROTOCOL; NATIONAL PLANNING; POLICY ANALYSIS; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; POLICY STRATEGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 36348983407     PISSN: 00040894     EISSN: 14754762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2007.00773.x     Document Type: Article

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