Unsustainable development: Environmental protection issues in rural and coastal areas

Challenges and Change in Middle America: Perspectives on Development in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 191-217

  Barton, Jonathan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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