The politics of the environment in singapore? Lessons from a “strange” case

Asian Journal of Social Science

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 9-34

  Goh, Daniel P S ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTALISM;

SINGAPORE;

EID: 0035174753     PISSN: 15684849     EISSN: 15685314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853101X00307     Document Type: Article

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