"Smart regulation": Can policy instrument design solve forest policy aims of expansion and sustainability in Flanders and the Netherlands?

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 16, Issue , 2012, Pages 23-34

  Van Gossum, Peter ^a   Arts, Bas ^b   Verheyen, Kris ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

NEPI; Policy instrument; Rational choice; Responsive regulation

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FLANDERS; FOREST POLICY; GOVERNMENT IS; INSTRUMENT DESIGNS; INSTRUMENT MIX; MULTIPLE-CASE STUDY; NEPI; NETHERLANDS; POLICY INSTRUMENT; POLICY INSTRUMENTS; RATIONAL CHOICE; RESPONSIVE REGULATION;

INSTRUMENTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

EID: 84857133264     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2009.08.010     Document Type: Article

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