Linking knowledge to action: the role of boundary spanners in translating ecology

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

• Publication date

  2017-12-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1002/FEE.1731
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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