Accumulation by decarbonization and the governance of carbon offsets

Economic Geography

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 127-155

  Bumpus, Adam G ^a   Liverman, Diana M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon offsets; Clean Development Mechanism; Climate change; Market environmentalism; Neoliberalism; Political economy

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTALISM; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; NEOLIBERALISM; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POLLUTION POLICY;

EID: 42449152664     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2008.tb00401.x     Document Type: Article

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