ENVIRONMENTAL DISCOURSES ON SOIL DEGRADATION IN BOLIVIA: Sustainability and the search for socioenvironmental “middle ground”

Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 98-114

  Zimmerer, Karl S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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