Scales and sales: Changing social and spatial fish trading networks in the Siiphandone fishery, Lao PDR

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 32-50

  Bush, Simon R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Commodity chain; Fish marketing; Geopolitics; Lao PDR; Rural livelihoods

Indexed keywords

FISHING COMMUNITY; FISHING INDUSTRY; REGIONAL TRADE; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ASIA; EURASIA; LAOS; SIIPHANDONE; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 1942485314     PISSN: 01297619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0129-7619.2004.00171.x     Document Type: Article

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