Scalar politics and strategic consolidation: The Norwegian Gas Forum's quest for embedding Norwegian gas resources in domestic space

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 226-237

  Underthun, Anders ^a   Kasa, Sjur ^b   Reitan, Marit ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH OSLO CICERO   (Norway)

Author keywords

natural gas; Norwegian Gas Forum; political economy of scale; scalar politics; state rescaling

Indexed keywords

ECONOMY OF SCALE; ENERGY POLICY; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON RESOURCE; INVESTMENT; NATURAL GAS; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POLITICAL INTEGRATION; TRADE UNION;

NORWAY;

EID: 84857868053     PISSN: 00291951     EISSN: 15025292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2011.623308     Document Type: Article

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