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Guest Comment: Human Rights and the Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Arthur H. Westing
Arthur H. Westing
Affiliation:
Westing Associates in Environment, Security & Education, RFD 1, Box 919, Putney, Vermont 05346, USA.
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , Summer 1993, pp. 99 - 100
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1993

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