Soft Systems Thinking and Social Learning for Adaptive Management

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Conservation Biology

• Publication date

  2012-02-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01755.xPMID 22010884
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