Voluntary Carbon Markets An International Business Guide to What They Are and How They Work, Second Edition

Voluntary Carbon Markets an International Business Guide to what they are and how they Work, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-160

  Bayon, Ricardo ^a   Hawn, Amanda ^b   Hamilton, Katherine ^a  

^a The University of California ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 85168480753     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781849773737     Document Type: Book

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