Perspectives of time and change: Rethinking embedded environmental activism in China

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Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 331-344

  Ho, Peter ^a   Edmonds, Richard Louis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Civil society development; Environmental NGOs; Environmentalism; Politics; Social activism

Indexed keywords

EID: 56849092160     PISSN: 0920203X     EISSN: 1741590X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0920203X07079649     Document Type: Article

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