Marketing and making carbon dumps: Commodification, calculation and counterfactuals in climate change mitigation

Science as Culture

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 203-235

  Lohmann, Larry ^a  

^a The Corner House   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84864736953     PISSN: 09505431     EISSN: 14701189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09505430500216783     Document Type: Article

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