Construction Nature: Elements for a post-structuralist political ecology

Futures

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 325-343

  Escobar, Arturo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; DISCOURSE; NATURE CONSTRUCTION; POLITICAL ECOLOGY; POST-STRUCTURALISM; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0030458176     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-3287(96)00011-0     Document Type: Article

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