Toward a world environment organization: Reflections upon a vital debate

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

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 87-115

  Charnovitz, Steve ^a,b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr   (United States)

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