Environmental Bargains: Power Struggles and Decision Making over British Columbia's and Tasmania's Old-Growth Forests

Economic Geography

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 181-206

  Affolderbach, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

British Columbia; ENGOs; Environmental bargaining; Forest conflicts; Tasmania

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; FOREST RESOURCE; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; POLITICAL ECONOMY;

AUSTRALIA; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; TASMANIA;

EID: 79952796252     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: 19448287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2011.01107.x     Document Type: Article

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