Private Governance and Land Grabbing: The Equator Principles and the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels

Globalizations

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 199-204

  Goetz, Ariane ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Equator Principles; land grabbing; private governance; Roundtable for Sustainable Biofuels; sustainability meta standard

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874160011     PISSN: 14747731     EISSN: 1474774X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2013.760949     Document Type: Article

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