Coffee exports as ecological, social, and physical unequal exchange: A cross-national investigation of the java trade

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 155-180

  Austin, Kelly ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coffee; environment; global social change; unequal exchange; well being

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL TRADE; COFFEE; CULTIVATION; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; EXPORT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CHANGE;

EID: 84869038767     PISSN: 00207152     EISSN: 17452554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020715212455350     Document Type: Article

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