Japan's global environmentalism: Rhetoric and reality

Political Geography

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 535-562

  Taylor, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a University of Kentucky ^*  (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aid; Development; Environmentalism; Japan; Political ecology

Indexed keywords

AID POLICY; ENVIRONMENTALISM; GEOPOLITICS;

JAPAN;

EID: 0032772999     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0962-6298(98)00112-7     Document Type: Article

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