Integrating climate change into governance at the municipal scale: An institutional perspective on practices in Denmark

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1017-1035

  Wejs, Anja ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climate change; Institutional theory; Legitimacy; Mechanisms

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; PLANNING PRACTICE;

DENMARK;

EID: 84906942402     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: 14723425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c1215     Document Type: Article

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