Filthy rich, not dirt poor! How nature nurtures civil violence

Handbook of Global Environmental Politics

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 149-169

  de Soysa, Indra ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

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