From commitment to action: a literature review on climate policy implementation at city level

Climatic Change

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 519-529

  Ryan, Daniel ^a  

^a FARN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS;

ALTERNATIVE CONFIGURATIONS; CLIMATE POLICY; LITERATURE REVIEWS; LOCAL CLIMATE; MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT; POLICY IMPLEMENTATIONS; URBAN CLIMATES;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; LITERATURE REVIEW; POLICY MAKING; STATE ROLE; URBAN AREA; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY;

EID: 84937515432     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1402-6     Document Type: Article

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