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Frontiers of Commodification: State Lands and Their Formalization

Alice B. KellyDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Nancy Lee PelusoDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Pages 473-495 | Received 14 Mar 2014, Accepted 27 Jul 2014, Published online: 05 May 2015

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