International environmental law in the anthropocene: Towards a purposive system of multilateral environmental agreements

Transnational Environmental Law

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 285-309

  Kim, Rakhyun E ^a   Bosselmann, Klaus ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Anthropocene; Earth's Ecological Integrity; Grundnorm; Planetary Boundaries; Problem Shifting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889052507     PISSN: 20471025     EISSN: 20471033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S2047102513000149     Document Type: Article

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