City Indicators on Climate Change: Implications for Governance

Environment and Urbanization Asia

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-39

  Mccarney, Patricia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

governance; indicators; management; metrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996150818     PISSN: 09754253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/097542531200300102     Document Type: Article

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