Moving beyond evidence-free environmental Policy

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 441-448

  Russell Smith, Jeremy ^a,b   Lindenmayer, David ^b,c   Kubiszewski, Ida ^b   Green, Peter ^b,d   Costanza, Robert ^b   Campbell, Andrew ^a  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVOCACY; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; PLANNING THEORY; POLICY MAKING; SURVEY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84943798037     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/150019     Document Type: Article

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