Forest policy and the global portrayal of forest-dwellers: Understanding the role of environmentalist discourses in Brazil and Malaysia

Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment

Volumn , Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-27

  Bending, Tim ^a   Rosendo, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brazilian Amazonia; Environmental discourse; Environmentalism; Sarawak (Malaysia); Social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 56249095516     PISSN: 09678875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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