Underneath Kyoto: Emerging subnational government initiatives and incipient issue-bundling opportunities in China and the United States

Global Environmental Politics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 53-77

  Koehn, Peter H ^a  

^a Department of Political Science ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GREENHOUSE GAS; KYOTO PROTOCOL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 39049172596     PISSN: 15263800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/glep.2008.8.1.53     Document Type: Article

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