Biofuel sustainability and the formation of transnational hybrid governance

Environmental Politics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 96-114

  Ponte, Stefano ^a   Daugbjerg, Carsten ^b  

^a Department of Business and Politics Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

biofuels; hybridity; sustainability; transnational governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921855682     PISSN: 09644016     EISSN: 17438934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2014.954776     Document Type: Article

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