Now and then: The origins of political ecology and the rebirth of adaptation as a form of thought

The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 19-50

  Watts, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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