How to govern a sustainable supply chain: Standards, standardizers, and the political ecology of (in)advertence

@inproceedings{Archer2021HowTG,
  title={How to govern a sustainable supply chain: Standards, standardizers, and the political ecology of (in)advertence},
  author={Matthew Archer},
  year={2021}
}
There is an ambivalence within political ecology about whether the unequal power relations that emerge from many development projects are intended or unintended. This ambivalence is a result of an ... 
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