Building green: Local political leadership addressing climate change

Review of Policy Research

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 605-624

  Lee, Taedong ^a   Koski, Chris ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b REED COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change policy; Green building; Multilevel governance; Political leadership

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LEADERSHIP; LOCAL PLANNING; URBAN AREA; URBAN POLITICS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864831615     PISSN: 1541132X     EISSN: 15411338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2012.00579.x     Document Type: Article

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