Old Wine in New Bottles? The Legitimation and Delegitimation of UN Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development from the Johannesburg Summit to the Rio+20 Summit

Globalizations

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 331-347

  Bäckstrand, Karin ^a   Kylsäter, Mikael ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Earth summits; environmental politics; legitimation; public private partnerships; sustainable development; United Nations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903487737     PISSN: 14747731     EISSN: 1474774X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2014.892398     Document Type: Article

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