The commensurability of carbon: Making value and money of climate change

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 80-98

  Dalsgaard, Steffen ^a  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Carbon; Commensurability; Commodification; Economy; Environment; Value

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901463873     PISSN: 20491115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14318/hau3.1.006     Document Type: Article

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