Innovation in climate adaptation policy: are regional partnerships catalysts or talking shops?

Environmental Politics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 818-838

  Bauer, Anja ^a   Steurer, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Canada; climate change adaptation; England; policy innovation; regional partnerships

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918827992     PISSN: 09644016     EISSN: 17438934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2014.924196     Document Type: Article

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