Attitudes to personal carbon allowances: Political trust, fairness and ideology

Climate Policy

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 410-431

  Jagers, Sverker C ^a   Löfgren, Åsa ^a   Stripple, Johannes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Carbon tax; Climate change; Environment; Fairness; Ideology; Personal carbon allowances; Public opinion; Trust

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSIONS TRADING; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; POLICY MAKING; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; POLITICAL RELATIONS; POLLUTION TAX; PUBLIC ATTITUDE;

EID: 77957372311     PISSN: 14693062     EISSN: 17527457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3763/cpol.2009.0673     Document Type: Article

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