Emissions trading: The enthusiastic adoption of an ‘alien’ instrument?

Climate Change Policy in the European Union: Confronting the Dilemmas of Mitigation and Adaptation?

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 125-144

  Van Asselt, Harro ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84860303735     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139042772.008     Document Type: Chapter

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