Enabling a Flourishing Earth: Challenges for the Green Economy, Opportunities for Global Governance

Review of European Community and International Environmental Law

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 23-30

  Bosselmann, Klaus ^a   Brown, Peter G ^b   MacKey, Brendan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC REFORM; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 84860133959     PISSN: 09628797     EISSN: 14679388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9388.2012.00743.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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