Reading the earth charter: Cosmopolitan environmental citizenship or light green politics as usual?

Ethics, Place and Environment

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 85-96

  MacGregor, Sherilyn ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 5444238077     PISSN: 1366879X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1366879042000264796     Document Type: Article

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