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10 - Evaluating Climate Governance Experiments

Participants’ Perspectives on Low-Carbon Experiments in Finland

from Part II - Beyond Experiments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2018

Bruno Turnheim
Affiliation:
King's College London
Paula Kivimaa
Affiliation:
University of Sussex
Frans Berkhout
Affiliation:
King's College London
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Innovating Climate Governance
Moving Beyond Experiments
, pp. 182 - 200
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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