Governing the Global Land Grab: Multipolarity, Ideas, and Complexity in Transnational Governance

Globalizations

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 65-86

  Margulis, Matias E ^a,b   Porter, Tony ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIETIES   (Germany)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

agricultural investment; complexity; global governance; land grabbing; multipolarity; risk; social protection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874169320     PISSN: 14747731     EISSN: 1474774X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2013.760930     Document Type: Article

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