The limits and opportunities of networks: Municipalities and Canadian climate change policy

Review of Policy Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-46

  Gore, Christopher D ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Comparative governance; Governance; Urban studies

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; NATIONAL PLANNING; NATIONAL POLITICS; NATIONAL STRATEGY; STATE ROLE;

CANADA;

EID: 75149151961     PISSN: 1541132X     EISSN: 15411338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2009.00425.x     Document Type: Article

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