The landscape approach: Designing new reserves for protection of biological and cultural diversity in Latin America

Environmental Ethics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 251-262

  Guevara, Sergio ^a,b   Laborde, Javier ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b MaB Network of the Ibero American Network and Caribbean Committees (Ibero MAB UNESCO)

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EID: 57749091547     PISSN: 01634275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/enviroethics200830331     Document Type: Conference Paper

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