Contesting legitimacy of voluntary sustainability certification schemes: Valuation languages and power asymmetries in the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil in Colombia

Ecological Economics

Volumn 117, Issue , 2015, Pages 303-313

  Marin Burgos, Victoria ^a   Clancy, Joy S ^a   Lovett, Jon C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Legitimacy; Palm oil; Procedural power; Socio environmental conflicts; Sustainability certification schemes; Valuation languages

Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION; COMPLIANCE; CULTIVATION; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ECONOMIC INSTRUMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INSTRUMENTATION; OIL INDUSTRY; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABILITY; VALUATION; VEGETABLE OIL;

COLOMBIA;

ELAEIS;

EID: 84938969197     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.04.011     Document Type: Article

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