Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia: Nature’s affluence meets human poverty
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a) Water Resources Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, 02015 HUT, Finland (emails: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]) b) Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Mechelininkatu 34a, 00251 Helsinki, Finland (email: [email protected]) c) Environmental Impact Assessment Centre of Finland Ltd (EIA Ltd), Tekniikantie 21B, 02150 Espoo, Finland (email: [email protected])
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