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7 - Democracy in the Anthropocene: A New Scale

from Part II - Key Concepts and the Anthropocene: A Reconsideration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2019

Frank Biermann
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Eva Lövbrand
Affiliation:
Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
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