Evaluation, assessment, and policy innovation: exploring the links in relation to emissions trading

Environmental Politics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 839-859

  Hildén, Mikael ^a  

^a FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

assessment; emission trading; evaluation; innovation management; multilevel perspective; policy innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918810150     PISSN: 09644016     EISSN: 17438934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2014.924199     Document Type: Article

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