Deforestation and emerging greenhouse gas compliance regimes: Toward a global environmental law of forests, carbon and climate governance

Deforestation and Climate Change: Reducing Carbon Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-25

  Boyd, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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