Multilevel governance, networking cities, and the geography of climate-change mitigation: Two Swedish examples

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-74

  Gustavsson, Eva ^a   Elander, Ingemar ^a   Lundmark, Mats ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBALIZATION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; NATIONAL PLANNING; NETWORKING; POLICY STRATEGY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 67649132843     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: 14723425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c07109j     Document Type: Article

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