Global norms, local compliance and the human rights-environment nexus: A case study of the Nam Theun II Dam in Laos

Human Rights and the Environment: Conflicts and Norms in a Globalizing World

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 147-171

  Hirsch, Philip ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Australian Mekong Resource Centre   (Australia)

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