Mining Development and Environmental Injustice in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Environmental Justice

• Publication date

  2012-04-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1089/env.2011.0017
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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