Environment as datascape: Enacting emission realities in corporate carbon accounting

Geoforum

Volumn 66, Issue , 2015, Pages 126-135

  Lippert, Ingmar ^a,b,c  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accounting; Carbon; Configuration; Data; Enactment; Ontology

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FIELDWORK; GLOBALIZATION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE;

EID: 84945313541     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.09.009     Document Type: Article

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