Local bureaucrats as bricoleurs. The everyday implementation practices of county environment officers in rural Kenya

International Journal of the Commons

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 87-106

  Funder, Mikkel ^a   Marani, Martin ^b  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Africa; Bricolage; Bureaucratic practices; Environmental management; Governance; Institutions; Kenya

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924901816     PISSN: 18750281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18352/ijc.526     Document Type: Article

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