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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v57i4.14723 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 515 - 527
Submitted on: Nov 10, 2004
Accepted on: Feb 4, 2005
Published on: Jan 1, 2005
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 2005 Lennart Bengtsson, Kevin I. Hodges, Lizzie S. R. Froude, published by Stockholm University Press
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