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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