Carbon offsetting: Sustaining consumption?

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2357-2379

  Lovell, Heather ^a   Bulkeley, Harriet ^b   Liverman, Diana ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLEANER PRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION CONTROL; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 70350560666     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a40345     Document Type: Article

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