Planting trees to mitigate climate change: Contested discourses of ecological modernization, green governmentality and civic environmentalism

Global Environmental Politics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 50-75

  Bäckstrand, Karin ^a   Lövbrand, Eva ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON SINK; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTALISM; GREENHOUSE GAS; KYOTO PROTOCOL; MICROCOSM; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; PLANTATION FORESTRY; TREE PLANTING;

EID: 33748771263     PISSN: 15263800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/glep.2006.6.1.50     Document Type: Review

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