The political ecology of deforestation in Thailand

Geography

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 225-237

  Delang, Claudio O ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POLITICAL ECONOMY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND; WORLD;

EID: 27644514711     PISSN: 00167487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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