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Coverage of environmental issues in undergraduate curricula in social work in four European countries: the UK, Switzerland, Germany and Greece

Pages 1038-1056 | Received 09 Mar 2021, Accepted 10 Jan 2022, Published online: 19 Jan 2022

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