The recession, environmental policy and ecological modernization - what's new about the Green New Deal?

International Planning Studies

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 191-211

  Feindt, Peter H ^a   Cowell, Richard ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FINANCIAL CRISIS;

EID: 78049488491     PISSN: 13563475     EISSN: 14699265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13563475.2010.509474     Document Type: Article

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