Environment and modernity in transitional China: Frontiers of ecological modernization

Development and Change

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-56

  Mol, Arthur P J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION; REFORM PROCESS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33645787975     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0012-155X.2006.00468.x     Document Type: Article

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