Drowning under progress: Water, culture, and development in the greater mekong subregion

Water, Cultural Diversity, and Global Environmental Change: Emerging Trends, Sustainable Futures?

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 349-366

  Matthews, Nathanial ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84948699263     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1774-9_25     Document Type: Chapter

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