Biosphere-oriented urbanization and UNESCO program “Man and the Biosphere”
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عنوان ژورنال: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1755-1315
DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/298/1/012023