Between Desire and Routine: Assembling Environment and Finance in Carbon Markets

The New Carbon Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 65-84

  Descheneau, Philippe ^a   Paterson, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

"taken for granted world"; Carbon Expo; Carbon markets; CDM and markets, cultural; Climate change; Credit rating agencies; Cultural political economy; Role of the state, EU ETS; Thrift, and the "new economy"

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888664454     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118315835.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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