Effective implementation of international environmental agreements: Learning lessons from the Danube delta conflict

Public Interest Rules of International Law: Towards Effects Implementation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 259-291

  Koyano, Mari ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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