Cold war and the environment: The role of Finland in international environmental politics in the Baltic Sea region

Ambio

Volumn 36, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 229-236

  Räsänen, Tuomas ^a   Laakkonen, Simo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; HISTORY; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; ETELA-SUOMEN; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; HELSINKI; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 34250647305     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[229:CWATET]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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94. Our study was supported by the BIREME research programme coordinated by the Academy of Finland, by the Network for European Studies of the University of Helsinki, and by the Finnish Cultural Foundation. We wish to thank PhD Frank Fullenwider for revising the language and MA Salla Jokela for drawing the map.