Generating effective global environmental governance: The north's need for a world environment organization

A World Environment Organization: Solution or Threat for Effective International Environmental Governance?

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 145-172

  Kirton, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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