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Environment and Culture: An Introduction

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Abbas Amanat
Abbas Amanat*
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Yale and the Director of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies
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Iranian Studies , Volume 49 , Issue 6: Special Issue: Environment in Iran: Changes and Challenges , November 2016, pp. 925 - 941
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