How land concessions affect places elsewhere: Telecoupling, political ecology, and large-scale plantations in southern laos and northeastern cambodia

Land

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 436-453

  Baird, Ian G ^a   Fox, Jefferson ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b EAST WEST CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cambodia; Economic land concessions; Land grabbing; Laos; Political ecology; Teleconnections; Telecoupling; Transnational; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960259474     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2073445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/LAND4020436     Document Type: Article

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