Building the Politics Machine: Tools for 'Resolving' the Global Land Grab

Development and Change

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 309-333

  Dwyer, Michael B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; DISPUTE RESOLUTION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LAND USE CONFLICT; LEGAL SYSTEM; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE;

LAOS;

EID: 84875080799     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dech.12014     Document Type: Article

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