Greening the state? The framing of sustainability in Dutch infrastructure governance

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 58, Issue , 2016, Pages 123-130

  Frantzeskaki, Niki ^a   Jhagroe, Shivant ^a   Howlett, Michael ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ecological modernization; Infrastructure governance; Narratives; Policy metaphor; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GOVERNMENT; MANAGEMENT; NETHERLANDS; POLICY; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84957878264     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2016.01.011     Document Type: Article

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