Forest Conservation & Environmental Awareness
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Reimagining Family Forest Conservation: Estimating Landowner Awareness and Their Preparedness to Act with the Conservation Awareness Index
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عنوان ژورنال: Procedia Earth and Planetary Science
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1878-5220
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeps.2015.06.027