The political ecology of violence in Eastern Sri Lanka

Development and Change

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 665-687

  Bohle, Hans Georg ^a   Fünfgeld, Hartmut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POLITICAL CONFLICT; SOCIAL CHANGE; VIOLENCE;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA;

EID: 34547480264     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2007.00428.x     Document Type: Article

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