Climate change policy and New Zealand's 'National interest': The need for embedding climate change policy into a sustainable development agenda

Political Science

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 61-72

  Bührs, Ton ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Climate change policy; Environmental space; New zealand; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 57249086540     PISSN: 00323187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003231870806000106     Document Type: Article

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