Eco-districts: can they accelerate urban climate planning?

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 364-380

  Fitzgerald, Joan ^a   Lenhart, Jennifer ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

climate adaptation; climate mitigation; environmental governance; environmental policy; local climate action

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EUROPEAN UNION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; MITIGATION; PLANNING PRACTICE; URBAN CLIMATE;

EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84959369756     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: 14723425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263774X15614666     Document Type: Article

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