Climate policy meets national development contexts: Insights from Kenya and Mozambique

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 35, Issue , 2015, Pages 534-544

  Naess, Lars Otto ^a   Newell, Peter ^b   Newsham, Andrew ^c   Phillips, Jon ^d   Quan, Julian ^e   Tanner, Thomas ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^f OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon forestry; Climate change; Development; Low carbon energy; Mitigation; Political economy

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FORESTRY; MITIGATION; NATIONAL PLANNING; POLICY APPROACH; POLICY STRATEGY; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POWER RELATIONS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

KENYA; MOZAMBIQUE;

EID: 84959577169     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.08.015     Document Type: Article

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