Designing long-term policy: Rethinking transition management

Policy Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 275-302

  Voß, Jan Peter ^a   Smith, Adrian ^b   Grin, John ^c  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Deliberation; Innovation in governance; Long term planning; Policy design; Politics of learning; Reflexive governance; Socio technical change; Sustainable development; Transition management

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INNOVATION; LEARNING; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; POLICY APPROACH; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; POLICY REFORM; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 72449165827     PISSN: 00322687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11077-009-9103-5     Document Type: Article

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