Small island developing states and international climate change negotiations: the power of moral “leadership”

International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 281-297

  de Águeda Corneloup, Inés ^a   Mol, Arthur P J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AOSIS; Climate change; Copenhagen; Discourse; Leadership; Negotiations

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DEVELOPING WORLD; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION; LEADERSHIP; MORALITY; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; SMALL ISLAND STATE; STAKEHOLDER;

COPENHAGEN [(CTY) HOVEDSTADEN]; DENMARK; HOVEDSTADEN;

EID: 84939473799     PISSN: 15679764     EISSN: 15731553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10784-013-9227-0     Document Type: Article

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