Climate change and international environmental law: Musings on a journey to somewhere

Journal of Environmental Law

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 437-461

  French, Duncan ^a   Rajamani, Lavanya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR POLICY RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Climate change regime; Consensusbased decision making; Differentiation; Dispute settlement; Legal scholarship; Soft law

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING WORLD; DISPUTE RESOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; INTERNATIONAL LAW; LEGISLATIVE IMPLEMENTATION;

EID: 84887523307     PISSN: 09528873     EISSN: 1464374X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jel/eqt022     Document Type: Article

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