Global Capital, National Development and Transnational Environmental Activism: Conflict and the Three Gorges Dam

Journal of Contemporary Asia

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 102-126

  Bellette Lee, Yuen Ching ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

China; dam; development; environment; globalisation; transnational activism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871172371     PISSN: 00472336     EISSN: 17527554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2012.739933     Document Type: Article

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