REDD+ policy networks: Exploring actors and power structures in an emerging policy domain

Ecology and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Brockhaus, Maria ^a   Di Gregorio, Monica ^b   Carmenta, Rachel ^a  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency; Climate change; Comparative analysis; Discourse coalitions; Policy network analysis; Power; REDD+; SNA; Transformational change

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; NETWORK ANALYSIS; POLICY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84924407412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-07098-190429     Document Type: Article

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