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22 - Financing Emission Reductions

Forest Mechanisms as a Model for Coral Reefs

from Part VI - Policies for Ocean Governance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2019

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Kamleshan Pillay ,
Yanasivan Kisten ,
Albertus Smit  and
David Glassom
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Paul G. Harris
Paul G. Harris
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Education University of Hong Kong
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Climate Change and Ocean Governance
Politics and Policy for Threatened Seas
 , pp. 362 - 375
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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