A critical review of the successful CFC phase-out versus the delayed methyl bromide phase-out in the Montreal Protocol

International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 209-231

  Gareau, Brian J ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

CFCs; Critical use exemptions; Ecological modernization; Global civil society; Individualism; Methyl bromide; Montreal Protocol; Neoliberalism

Indexed keywords

CFC; CROP PRODUCTION; ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION; FRUIT; INDIVIDUALISM; METHYL BROMIDE; MONTREAL PROTOCOL; NEOLIBERALISM; OZONE DEPLETION; POLICY MAKING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

FRAGARIA X ANANASSA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 77955556773     PISSN: 15679764     EISSN: 15731553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10784-010-9120-z     Document Type: Article

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