Climate change and the convergence between ENGOs and business: On the loss of utopian energies

Environmental Values

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 75-94

  Anshelm, Jonas ^a   Hansson, Anders ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

BINGO; Climate change; ENGO; Oil industry; Organisational environmental discourse

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONVERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; OIL INDUSTRY; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK;

EID: 78651088912     PISSN: 09632719     EISSN: 17527015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3197/096327111X12922350166076     Document Type: Article

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