期刊名称：Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1943-815X
电子版ISSN：1943-8168
出版年度：2007
卷号：4
期号：3
页码：171-182
DOI：10.1080/15693430701742719
出版社：Taylor & Francis
摘要：This work investigates how and why climate change policy initiatives are taken at a local level against the background of the evolution of national policy in the Netherlands. The central government actively promotes climate policy initiatives at a local level through subsidies related to a menu of possible action. The case studies illustrate how different cities make different choices; thereby demonstrating the effectiveness of a flexible policy. The work concludes that transferring authority and resources to the local level may make it easier to develop and effectively implement climate change policy; but that, as yet, there is no hard evidence to demonstrate whether this is indeed the case as the policies have only just been initiated.
