Institutions and policy processes: The means to the ends of adaptation

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 212-231

  Dovers, Stephen R ^a   Hezri, Adnan A ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE; INSTITUTIONAL SETTING; NATIONAL POLICIES; POLICY EVALUATION; POLICY INSTRUMENTS; POLICY INTERVENTION; SECTORAL POLICIES; SELF-REFERENCING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 78649482225     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.29     Document Type: Article

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