Preparing the design of robust climate policy architectures

International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 275-295

  Verbruggen, Aviel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Climate policy design principles; Diversity; Equity

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSIONS TRADING; ENERGY USE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EQUITY; POLICY MAKING; POLLUTION TAX;

EID: 80255141898     PISSN: 15679764     EISSN: 15731553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10784-010-9130-x     Document Type: Article

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