Multi-level governance and the politics of scale: The challenge of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Environmental Governance: Power and Knowledge in a Local-Global World

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 81-99

  Görg, Christoph ^a   Rauschmayer, Felix ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

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EID: 67549136911     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203880104     Document Type: Chapter

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