The green economy: Incremental change or transformation?

Environmental Policy and Governance

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 209-220

  Borel Saladin, Jacqueline Madeleine ^a   Turok, Ivan Nicholas ^a  

^a HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Government policy; Green economy; Political will; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC SYSTEM; GLOBALIZATION; OECD; POLICY APPROACH; POLITICAL ECONOMY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; UNITED NATIONS; WORLD BANK;

EID: 84882265929     PISSN: 1756932X     EISSN: 17569338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eet.1614     Document Type: Article

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