"Green fix" as crisis management. or, in which world is malmö the world's greenest city?

Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 275-290

  Holgersen, Ståle ^a   Malm, Andreas ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Ecology Division   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Crisis management; Dual crisis; Ecological modernization; Green fix; Malm ; Sustainability fix

Indexed keywords

CRISIS MANAGEMENT; GREENSPACE; MODERNIZATION; POLICY STRATEGY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POLICY;

MALMO; SKANE; SWEDEN;

AVES;

EID: 84959908813     PISSN: 04353684     EISSN: 14680467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geob.12081     Document Type: Article

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