Contentious geographies: Environmental knowledge, meaning, scale

Contentious Geographies: Environmental Knowledge, Meaning, Scale

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-23

  Goodman, Michael K ^a   Boykoff, Maxwell T ^b   Evered, Kyle T ^c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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