Controlling the weed nuisance in turn-of-the century American cities

Environmental History

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 611-631

  Falck, Zachary J S ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; URBAN AREA; WEED CONTROL;

CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036817366     PISSN: 10845453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3986059     Document Type: Article

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