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Disciplines, Sectors, Motivations and Power Relations in Forest Landscape Restoration

Stephanie Mansourian
Ecological Restoration, March 2021, 39 (1-2) 16-26; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.39.1-2.16

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