Developing sustainable urban transportation lesson drawing and the framing of montreal’s bikesharing policy

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 7-8, 2014, Pages 545-558

  Béland, Daniel ^a  

^a University of Saskatchewan's Johnson Shoyama   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Cities; Environmentalism; Local government; Public policy; Urban development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910005587     PISSN: 0144333X     EISSN: 17586720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJSSP-07-2013-0072     Document Type: Article

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