The development of multilateral environmental agreements on toxic chemicals: Integrating the work of scientists and policy makers

Handbook of Transdisciplinary Research

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 173-190

  Castells, Nuria ^a   Guardans, Ramon ^b  

^a United Nations Conference on Trade and Development   (Switzerland)

^b Ministry of Environment   (Spain)

Author keywords

Integrated assessment models; Long range transboundary air pollution; Multilateral environmental agreement (MEA); Persistent organic pollutants; Science and policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870364460     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6699-3_11     Document Type: Chapter

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