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Towards Increased Community-Engaged Ecological Restoration: A Review of Current Practice and Future Directions

Helen Fox and Georgina Cundill
Ecological Restoration, September 2018, 36 (3) 208-218; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.36.3.208

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