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Social Construction of Pastureland: Changing Rules and Resource-Use Rights in China and Kyrgyzstan Cover

Social Construction of Pastureland: Changing Rules and Resource-Use Rights in China and Kyrgyzstan

By: Lu Yu and  Ulan Kasymov  
Open Access
|Feb 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.940 | Journal eISSN: 1875-0281
Language: English
Submitted on: Oct 6, 2018
Accepted on: Oct 29, 2019
Published on: Feb 17, 2020
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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