Global environmental governance: Taking stock, moving forward

Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Volumn 33, Issue , 2008, Pages 277-294

  Biermann, Frank ^a   Pattberg, Philipp ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Institutions; Interlinkages; International environmental politics; Transnational regimes

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE; GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS; INSTITUTIONS; INTERLINKAGES; INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; KEY CHARACTERISTICS; NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS; NEW MECHANISMS; TRANSNATIONAL REGIMES;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 55849138028     PISSN: 15435938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.environ.33.050707.085733     Document Type: Article

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