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Environmental Justice

Decolonizing Environmental Justice Studies: A Latin American Perspective

Lina ÁlvarezCentre for Philosophy of Law, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium;Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, FNRS, Brussels, Belgium
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Brendan CoolsaetEuropean School of Political and Social Sciences, Université catholique de Lille, Lille, France;School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 50-69 | Received 20 Dec 2017, Accepted 24 Aug 2018, Published online: 17 Dec 2018

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