Fading green? Environmental politics in the Mercosur free trade agreement

Latin American Politics and Society

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1-32

  Hochstetler, Kathryn ^a  

^a Alion Science Boulder and Department of Psychology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; FREE TRADE; MERCOSUR; TRADE AGREEMENT; TRADE-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0348233862     PISSN: 1531426X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-2456.2003.tb00256.x     Document Type: Article

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