Responsibility for the Past? Some Thoughts on Compensating Those Vulnerable to Climate Change in Developing Countries

Ethics, Policy and Environment

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 94-110

  Baatz, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84879661963     PISSN: 21550085     EISSN: 21550093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2013.768397     Document Type: Article

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