NGOs and environmental public goods: Institutional alternatives to property rights

Development and Change

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 453-474

  Meyer, Carrie A ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL NGO; GENETIC RESOURCES; INSTITUTIONAL ALTERNATIVE; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION; PUBLIC GOODS;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 0030462187     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.1996.tb00599.x     Document Type: Article

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