Whose Forest Is It Anyway? Mbendjele Yaka Pygmies, the Ndoki Forest and the Wider World

Property and Equality Volume 2: Encapsulation, Commercialisation, Discrimination

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 56-78

  Lewis, Jerome ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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