Inequality and the global climate regime: Breaking the north-south impasse

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 621-648

  Parks, Bradley C ^a   Roberts, J Timmons ^b  

^a Millennium Challenge Corporation   (United States)

^b The College of William and Mary   (United States)

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EID: 85050707673     PISSN: 09557571     EISSN: 1474449X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09557570802452979     Document Type: Article

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