Fixed minerals, scalar politics: The weight of scale in conflicts over the '1872 Mining Law' in the United States

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 371-378

  Huber, Matthew T ^a   Emel, Jody ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMY OF SCALE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; EXTRACTION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; MINING INDUSTRY; NATURAL RESOURCE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 65649129000     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a40166     Document Type: Article

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