Political action through environmental shareholder resolution filing: applicability to Canadian Oil Sands?

Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 26-43

  Cook, Jackie ^a  

^a NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

climate change; hydraulic fracturing; oil sands; shareholder activism; shareholder resolutions; social movement

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047497378     PISSN: 20430795     EISSN: 20430809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20430795.2012.702497     Document Type: Article

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