Setting the stage for biofuels: Policy texts, community of practice, and institutional ambiguity at the fourth world conservation congress

Conservation and Society

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 312-319

  MacLina, Edward M ^a   Bello, Juan Luis Dammert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Peruvian Society for Environmental Law   (Peru)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Communities of practice; Institutions; IUCN; Performance; WCC

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906277087     PISSN: 09724923     EISSN: 09753133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.78147     Document Type: Article

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