Bringing Cities into the Global Climate Framework

The Urban Climate Challenge: Rethinking the Role of Cities in the Global Climate Regime

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 24-36

  Sassen, Saskia ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 85145153823     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315772981-7     Document Type: Chapter

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