A transparency turn in global environmental governance

Transparency in Global Environmental Governance: Critical Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3-38

  Gupta, Aarti ^a   Mason, Michael ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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