The politics of certification: Consumer knowledge, power, and global governance in ecolabeling

Global Political Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 169-184

  Eden, Sally ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

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