Business on the margin: Local practices and the politics of forests in Finland

Ethics, Place and Environment

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-47

  Peltola, Taru ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTOR NETWORK THEORY; FORESTRY PRACTICE; TECHNOLOGY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33847101757     PISSN: 1366879X     EISSN: 14696703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13668790601156328     Document Type: Article

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