Local ecologies and global science: Discourses and strategies of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 923-950

  Kwa, Chunglin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Political Sciences ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Earth sciences; Global change; History of ecology; Interdisciplinarity; National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144471134     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312705052100     Document Type: Review

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