Climate change: The political economy of Kyoto flexible mechanisms

Review of Radical Political Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 32-49

  Vlachou, Andriana ^a   Konstantinidis, Charalampos ^b  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Environmental policies; Kyoto Protocol; Labor value theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 76449090636     PISSN: 04866134     EISSN: 15528502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0486613409357179     Document Type: Article

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