Greening cosmopolitan urbanism? On the transnational mobility of low-carbon formats in Northern European and East Asian cities

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2327-2343

  Blok, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climate change; Green cosmopolitization; Place based eco identities; Urban policy mobilities; World city networks

Indexed keywords

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; GREENSPACE; INNOVATION; MOBILITY; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; SUSTAINABILITY; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY; WORLD CITY;

FAR EAST; NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 84868008838     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a44559     Document Type: Article

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