Certification systems as tools for natural asset building

Reclaiming Nature: Environmental Justice and Ecological Restoration

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 259-288

  Conroy, Michael E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84911192349     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.7135/UPO9781843313465.011     Document Type: Chapter

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