How to trade ‘not cutting down trees’: A governmentality perspective on the commodification of avoided deforestation

Interpretive Approaches to Global Climate Governance: (De)Constructing the Greenhouse

Volumn 9780203385579, Issue , 2013, Pages 57-71

  Stephan, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203385579     Document Type: Chapter

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