Local climate action: Motives, enabling factors and barriers

Carbon Management

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 67-79

  Salon, Deborah ^a   Murphy, Sinnott ^b   Sciara, Gian Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; FINANCIAL RESOURCES; LOCAL CLIMATE; NATIONAL LEVEL; NATIONAL POLICIES; STAFF TIME; WEB-BASED SURVEYS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 84893186627     PISSN: 17583004     EISSN: 17583012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4155/cmt.13.81     Document Type: Article

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