The role of voluntary certification in maintaining the ecologically unequal exchange of wood pulp: The Forest Stewardship Council's certification of industrial tree plantations in Brazil

Journal of Political Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 434-445

  Kill, Jutta E ^a  

^a World Rainforest Movement (WRM)   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Certification; Commodity chains; Conflicts; Consumption; Ecologically unequal exchange; Environmental justice; Forest Stewardship Council (FSC); Industrial tree plantations; Pulp and paper; Resistance struggles

Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; FOREST PRODUCT; PLANTATION FORESTRY; TRADE; VOLUNTARY APPROACH; WOOD;

BRAZIL;

ELAEIS;

EID: 85011999859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10730451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2458/v23i1.20247     Document Type: Article

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