Alternative regimes of transnational environmental certification: Governance, marketization, and place in Alaska's salmon fisheries

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2734-2751

  Foley, Paul ^a   Hébert, Karen ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Certification; Fisheries; Marine Stewardship Council; Neoliberal governance

Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; FISHERY ECONOMICS; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MARKET SYSTEM; NEOLIBERALISM; SALMONID;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84888410977     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a45202     Document Type: Article

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