Enforcing international environmental cooperation: Technological standards can help

Review of International Organizations

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 475-496

  Urpelainen, Johannes ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental policy; Game theory; Institutional design; International cooperation; Technological standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449247643     PISSN: 15597431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11558-010-9086-1     Document Type: Article

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