Governing Towards Sustainability-Conceptualizing Modes of Governance

Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 403-425

  Lange, Philipp ^a   Driessen, Peter P J ^b   Sauer, Alexandra ^a   Bornemann, Basil ^a   Burger, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

dimensions of governance; Governance of sustainable development; modes of governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883488182     PISSN: 1523908X     EISSN: 15227200     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2013.769414     Document Type: Article

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