Gold country: The politics of landscape in exurban el Dorado County, California

Journal of Political Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-16

  Beebe, Craig ^a,b   Wheeler, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Davis ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

California; Cultural geography; Exurbia; Landscape; Political ecology; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868115111     PISSN: 10730451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2458/v19i1.21710     Document Type: Article

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