Information, environmental performance, and environmental management systems

Regulating from the Inside: Can Environmental Management Systems Achieve Policy Goals

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 146-180

  Metzenbaum, Shelley H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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