Trade liberalisation in environmental services: Why so little progress?

Global Economy Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Kirkpatrick, Colin ^a   George, Clive ^a   Scrieciu, Serban S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental services; Trade liberalisation; WTO

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646885206     PISSN: 15245861     EISSN: 15245861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1524-5861.1174     Document Type: Article

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