Examining climate change mitigation and adaptation behaviours among public sector organisations in the USA

Local Environment

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 591-603

  Brody, Sam ^a   Grover, Himanshu ^a   Lindquist, Eric ^a   Vedlitz, Arnold ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Organisational decision making; Public policy

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; MITIGATION; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; POLICY APPROACH; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; PUBLIC SECTOR;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954296103     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: 14696711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2010.490828     Document Type: Article

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