Public sector voluntary initiatives: the adoption of the environmental management system by public waste water treatment facilities in the United States
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Public sector voluntary initiatives: the adoption of the environmental management system by public waste water treatment facilities in the United States Wan-Ling Huang, Eric W. Welch & Elizabeth A. Corley To cite this article: Wan-Ling Huang, Eric W. Welch & Elizabeth A. Corley (2014) Public sector voluntary initiatives: the adoption of the environmental management system by public waste water treatment facilities in the United States, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 57:10, 1531-1551, DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2013.816630 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2013.816630
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