Land-Use Change and Conservation Challenges in the Indian Himalaya: Past, Present, and Future

Conservation Biology: Voices from the Tropics

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 123-133

  Pandit, Maharaj K ^a   Kumar, Virendra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

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DOI: 10.1002/9781118679838.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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