Insects-as-Infrastructure: Indicating, Project Locustox and the Sahelization of Ecotoxicology

Science as Culture

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 108-131

  Tousignant, Noémi ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

capacity building; future; indicating; infrastructure; Insect; Sahel

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876049065     PISSN: 09505431     EISSN: 14701189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2013.776369     Document Type: Article

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