Mediterranean Rift: Socio-Ecological Transformations in the Sicilian Bluefin Tuna Fishery

Critical Sociology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 417-436

  Longo, Stefano B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT SPRINGFIELD   (United States)

Author keywords

aquaculture; environmental sociology; fisheries; globalization; metabolic rift; political economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861683420     PISSN: 08969205     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0896920510382930     Document Type: Article

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