Playing the politics of scale: Oxfam's intervention in the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil

Geoforum

Volumn 45, Issue , 2013, Pages 296-304

  Pesqueira, Luli ^a   Glasbergen, Pieter ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Global private governance; Human rights; Oxfam; Palm oil; Partnerships; Politics of scale; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 84873994511     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.11.017     Document Type: Article

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