Barriers to personal carbon trading in the policy arena

Climate Policy

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 353-368

  Parag, Yael ^a   Eyre, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agenda setting; GHG emissions reduction; Governance; Personal carbon trading; Policy barriers; Policy process

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EMISSION CONTROL; EMISSIONS TRADING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GREENHOUSE GAS; POLICY ANALYSIS; POLICY MAKING;

EID: 77957332172     PISSN: 14693062     EISSN: 17527457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3763/cpol.2009.0009     Document Type: Article

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