Mapping Value in a 'Green' Commodity Frontier: Revisiting Commodity Chain Analysis

Development and Change

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 240-265

  Neimark, Benjamin ^a   Mahanty, Sango ^b   Dressler, Wolfram ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; BIOFUEL; COMMODITY MARKET; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMISSIONS TRADING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTALISM; PLANNING METHOD;

CAMBODIA; LAOS; MADAGASCAR;

EID: 84959256457     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dech.12226     Document Type: Article

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