From water to land to brownfield: The land-people relation in the Eastern Thames

Capitalism, Nature, Socialism

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 44-67

  Watson, Judith ^a  

^a NONE

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ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BROWNFIELD SITE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; LAND DEGRADATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; THAMES RIVER [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34547871310     PISSN: 10455752     EISSN: 15483290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10455750701526252     Document Type: Article

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