All Dressed Up with Nowhere to Go: The Discourse of Ecological Modernization in Alberta, Canada

Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 47-65

  Davidson, Debra J ^a   MacKendrick, Norah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 1842854075     PISSN: 00084948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-618x.2004.tb02169.x     Document Type: Review

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