Discovering price in all the wrong places: The work of commodity definition and price under neoliberal environmental policy

Antipode

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 500-526

  Robertson, Morgan ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Commodification of nature; Ecosystem services; Neoliberal economics; Price discovery; Water quality trading; Wetland banking

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY PRICE; ECONOMIC THEORY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; MARKET CONDITIONS; NEOLIBERALISM; PRICE DETERMINATION; PRICE DYNAMICS; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EID: 34547136448     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2007.00537.x     Document Type: Article

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