Mangroves, people and cockles: Impacts of the shrimp-farming industry on mangrove communities in Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador

Environment and Livelihoods in Tropical Coastal Zones: Managing Agriculture-Fishery-Aquaculture Conflicts

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 140-153

  Ocampo Thomason, P ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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