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Communities and conservation; histories and politics of community-based natural resource management.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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0759105057
Communities and conservation; histories and politics of community-based natural resource management.
Ed. by J. Peter Brosius et al.
AltaMira Press
2005
489 pages
$95.00
Hardcover
Globalization and the environment
S928
Brosius (anthropology, U. of Georgia) et al. assemble a book of 17 essays on the management of resources by communities, stemming from a conf...
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