The Road to Paris: Contending Climate Governance Discourses in the Post-Copenhagen Era

Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 519-532

  Bäckstrand, Karin ^a   Lövbrand, Eva ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

climate governance; Discourse analysis; governmentality; International Relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961217880     PISSN: 1523908X     EISSN: 15227200     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2016.1150777     Document Type: Article

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