A new context for the ramsar convention: Wetlands in a changing world

Review of European Community and International Environmental Law

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 100-106

  Bridgewater, Peter ^a  

^a JOINT NATURE CONSERVATION COMMITTEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; WETLAND;

EID: 42149154784     PISSN: 09628797     EISSN: 14679388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9388.2008.00582.x     Document Type: Article

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