Global environmental politics and competition between nation-states: On the regulation of biological diversity

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 371-398

  Görg, Christoph ^a   Brand, Ulrich ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Environmental policy; International regulation; Regulation theory; Societal relationship with nature; State theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034411506     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09692290050173999     Document Type: Article

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