Agricultural multifunctionality, environmental sustainability and the WTO: Resistance or accommodation to the neoliberal project for agriculture?

Geoforum

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1290-1303

  Potter, Clive ^a   Tilzey, Mark ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental Sustainability; Multifunctionality; Neoliberalism; WTO

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHANGE; AGRICULTURAL MARKET; EUROPEAN UNION; NEOLIBERALISM; RURAL POLICY; SUSTAINABILITY; TRADE LIBERALIZATION; WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 34848909587     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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