Neo-Environmental Determinism, Intellectual Damage Control, and Nature/Society Science
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عنوان ژورنال: Antipode
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0066-4812,1467-8330
DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-8330.2003.00354.x