Progress in global climate change politics? Reasserting national state territoriality in a 'post-political' world

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 457-474

  Kythreotis, Andrew Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

climate change; globalization; national state; post politics; territoriality

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBALIZATION; NATION STATE; NATIONAL POLITICS; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; TERRITORIALITY;

EID: 84863690645     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309132511427961     Document Type: Article

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