Environmental refugees: A review

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 81-88

  Ramlogan, Rajendra ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concepts; Definitions; Developing countries; Environment; Refugees

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002888826     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0376892900038285     Document Type: Article

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