Political Constraints on Adaptive Governance: Environmental NGO Networks in Nanjing, China

Journal of Environment and Development

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 418-444

  Gaudreau, Matthew ^a   Cao, Huhua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

adaptive governance; China; corporatism; environment; fragmented authoritarianism; networks; politics

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; POLITICAL RELATIONS;

CHINA; JIANGSU; NANJING [JIANGSU]; QINHUAI RIVER;

EID: 84946049008     PISSN: 10704965     EISSN: 15525465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1070496515602044     Document Type: Article

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