Problem Uncertainty, Institutional Insularity, and Modes of Learning in Canadian Provincial Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation.
This study uses policy learning frameworks to explain variation in processes of hydraulic fracturing regulatory development in Canadian provinces. Using a cross‐case comparison of British Columbia and Nova Scotia, the article demonstrates that differences in problem uncertainty and institutional ins...
| Publicado en: | Review of Policy Research Vol. 37; no. 6; pp. 765 - 797 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2020
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