Blue Revolution in a Commodity Frontier: Ecologies of Aquaculture and Agrarian Change in Laguna Lake, Philippines

Journal of Agrarian Change

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 571-593

  Saguin, Kristian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES   (Philippines)

Author keywords

aquaculture; capture fisheries; commodity frontier; ecological agrarian question; Philippines

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN CHANGE; AQUACULTURE PRODUCTION; COMMODITY; FISHERY PRODUCTION;

PHILIPPINES;

EID: 84938333966     PISSN: 14710358     EISSN: 14710366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joac.12114     Document Type: Article

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