The local politics of policy mobility: Learning, persuasion, and the production of a municipal sustainability fix

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1389-1406

  Temenos, Cristina ^a   McCann, Eugene ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Policy mobilities; Politics of learning; Sustainability; The natural step (TNS); Whistler BC

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; POLICY MAKING; POLITICAL DISCOURSE; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; WHISTLER;

EID: 84864398550     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a44314     Document Type: Article

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