Global environmental governance and planetary boundaries: An introduction

Ecological Economics

Volumn 81, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-3

  Galaz, Victor ^a   Biermann, Frank ^b   Folke, Carl ^a,c   Nilsson, Måns ^d   Olsson, Per ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptive governance; Earth system governance; Global environmental governance; Planetary boundaries; Resilience; Social ecological systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865090920     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.02.023     Document Type: Editorial

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