Sustainability and Biodiversity
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چکیده
Jeannine Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA James Heffernan, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA, and Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Elizabeth King, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, and University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA Stephen Polasky, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA Patricia Balvanera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, México William C Clark, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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