Local actions, global impacts: International cooperation and the CDM

Global Environmental Politics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 108-133

  Dinar, Ariel ^a   Rahman, Shaikh Mahfuzur ^a   Larson, Donald F ^a   Ambrosi, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABATEMENT COST; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LOCAL PARTICIPATION;

EID: 80054688030     PISSN: 15263800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/GLEP_a_00086     Document Type: Article

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