Marginality and environment in Papua New Guinea: The strickland river area

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 217-230

  Banks, Glenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discourse; Environment; Marginality; Mining; Post colonial

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GOLD MINE; POST-COLONIALISM;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA; STRICKLAND RIVER;

EID: 0034442482     PISSN: 13607456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8373.00119     Document Type: Article

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