Rationale of early adopters of fossil fuel divestment

International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 506-519

  Beer, Christopher Todd ^a  

^a LAKE FOREST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Divestment; Ecological modernization; Fossil fuels; Framing; Institutional logic; Social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978221356     PISSN: 14676370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJSHE-02-2015-0035     Document Type: Article

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