Implementation challenges and compliance in mea negotiations

The Roads From Rio: Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Multilateral Environmental Negotiations

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 222-250

  Morgera, Elisa ^a   Tsioumani, Elsa ^b   Aguilar, Soledad ^c   Wilkins, Hugh S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c IISD Reporting Services   (United States)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203125564     Document Type: Chapter

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