What is land? Assembling a resource for global investment

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 589-602

  Li, Tania Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assemblage; Global investment; Land; Resource; Risk; Statistical picturing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927572559     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tran.12065     Document Type: Article

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