Suppressing fire and memory: Environmental degradation and political restoration in the Sierra Juárez of Oaxaca, 1887-2001

Environmental History

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 77-108

  Mathews, Andrew Salvador ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; FOREST FIRE;

JUAREZ; MEXICO; OAXACA STATE;

EID: 0037240979     PISSN: 10845453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3985973     Document Type: Article

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