Contested terrains: Politics of scale, the national state and struggles for the control over nature

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 883-906

  Wissen, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Genetic resources; Multi level governance; Scale; Societal relations with nature; State; TRIPs agreement

Indexed keywords

EID: 73049108911     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: 14664526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09692290802529843     Document Type: Article

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