Material efficiency: From top-down steering to tailor-made governance

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1986, 2013, Pages

  Cramer, Jacqueline ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Governance; Material efficiency; System change; Transition management

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; RESEARCH;

BIO-ENERGY; E-WASTE; GOVERNANCE; GOVERNMENT IS; GUIDING PRINCIPLES; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; MATERIAL EFFICIENCY; SYSTEM CHANGE; TOPDOWN; TRANSITION MANAGEMENT; TRANSITION PROCESS;

MATERIALS;

EID: 84874222697     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0564     Document Type: Article

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