The eco-scalar fix: Rescaling environmental governance and the politics of ecological boundaries in Alberta, Canada

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 128-146

  Cohen, Alice ^a   Bakker, Karen ^b  

^a ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boundaries; Eco scalar fix; Environmental policy; Political ecology; Political economy; Scale; Watersheds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893832828     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: 14723433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d0813     Document Type: Article

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