The 'greening' of global project financing: The case of the Sakhalin-II offshore oil and gas project

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 255-279

  Bradshaw, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GAS; GAS INDUSTRY; GLOBAL ECONOMY; OFFSHORE ENGINEERING; OIL INDUSTRY;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHALIN;

EID: 34548556131     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: 15410064     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2007.00178.x     Document Type: Article

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