Tourism and the treadmill of production: a cross-national analysis

Environmental Sociology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 127-138

  Griffin, Lauren N ^a   Pavela, Gregory ^b   Arroyo, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean; foreign direct investment; panel data; tourism; treadmill of production

Indexed keywords

EID: 85050772248     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23251042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23251042.2015.1022930     Document Type: Article

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