Spatiotemporal methodologies in environmental anthropology: Geographic information systems, remote sensing, landscape changes, and local knowledge

Environmental Social Sciences: Methods and Research Design

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 266-298

  Chowdhury, Rinku Roy ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84887496832     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511760242.014     Document Type: Chapter

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