From Anthropologyworks:
The Financialization of Amazonia: Scientific Knowledge and Carbon Market in Brazil, by Shaozeng Zhang. University of California, Irvine. Advisor: George E. Marcus. This dissertation is about the epistemic and policy evolution of the environmental financial mechanism of REDD+ (Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) in Brazil.
 
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