Tidy back yards or global justice? Types of rural GMO opposition in Austria and France and their wider implications

Reconstructing Biotechnologies: Critical Social Analyses

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 79-96

  Seifert, Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

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EID: 57749170560     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-639-7     Document Type: Chapter

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