States of conservation: Protection, politics, and pacting within UNESCO's world heritage committee

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 217-243

  Meskell, Lynn ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Endangerment; Nation states; Panama; UNESCO; World heritage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894245741     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: 15341518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2014.0009     Document Type: Article

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