Road construction in the Peruvian Amazon: process, causes and consequences

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• Publication year

  2001

• Venue

  Environmental Conservation

• Publication date

  2001-09-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Engineering, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1017/S0376892901000212
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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