Innovations in climate policy: the politics of invention, diffusion, and evaluation

Environmental Politics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 715-734

  Jordan, Andrew ^a   Huitema, Dave ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

climate change; diffusion; evaluation; invention; policy innovation; public policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918797408     PISSN: 09644016     EISSN: 17438934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2014.923614     Document Type: Editorial

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