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Building Resilience in Ecological Restoration Processes: A Social-Ecological Perspective

Katrina Krievins, Ryan Plummer and Julia Baird
Ecological Restoration, September 2018, 36 (3) 195-207; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.36.3.195

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