Environmental education and constructions of sustainable development in Jamaica

Sustainable Development: National Aspirations, Local Implementation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 91-113

  Ferguson, Therese ^a   Thomas Hope, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

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