Changes in enforcement styles among environmental enforcement officials in China

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2706-2723

  Lo, Carlos Wing Hung ^a   Fryxell, Gerald E ^b   Van Rooij, Benjamin ^c  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINA EUROPE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; PANEL DATA; PERCEPTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGDONG; GUANGZHOU;

EID: 70350536596     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a41357     Document Type: Article

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