The practice of third-party certification: Enhancing environmental sustainability and social justice in the global south?

Calculating the Social: Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 56-74

  Bain, Carmen ^a   Hatanaka, Maki ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84996967184     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230289673     Document Type: Chapter

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