Banking Spatially on the Future: Capital Switching, Infrastructure, and the Ecological Fix

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 378-386

  Castree, Noel ^a,c   Christophers, Brett ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

capital switching; climate change; finance capital; infrastructure; regulation

Indexed keywords

BANKING; CAPITAL FLOW; CAPITALISM; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; INFRASTRUCTURE; INVESTMENT; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK;

EID: 84924248669     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2014.985622     Document Type: Article

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