Risk perception and international environmental affairs: The organochlorine debate between Sweden and Finland

Ambio

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 359-362

  Auer, Matthew R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ORGANOCHLORINE; ORGANOCHLORINES; POLLUTION; RISK PERCEPTION;

FINLAND; SWEDEN;

EID: 0030809682     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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51. This work was supported by the Nordic Council and the Lars-Erik Thunholms stiftelse. Donald Green, Bengt Kriström, and John Wargo provided helpful comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript.
52. First submitted 21 December 1995. Accepted for publication after revision 24 October 1996.