Population, Development and Global Warming: Averting the Tragedy of the Climate Commons

Population and Environment

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 443-463

  Meyerson, Frederick A B ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC GROWTH; GLOBAL WARMING; POPULATION GROWTH; TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS;

EID: 0031688816     PISSN: 01990039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024622220962     Document Type: Article

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