Regional governance of global climate change: The North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation

Global Environmental Politics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Betsill, Michele M ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34247505138     PISSN: 15263800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/glep.2007.7.2.11     Document Type: Article

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