The political duality of scale-making in environmental markets1

Environmental Politics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 632-649

  Simons, Arno ^a   Lis, Aleksandra ^b   Lippert, Ingmar ^c  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

carbon markets; environmental markets; governmentality; material semiotics; practice; scale

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; EMISSIONS TRADING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; MARKET CONDITIONS;

EID: 84902768459     PISSN: 09644016     EISSN: 17438934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2014.893120     Document Type: Article

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