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Commentary

Finding Common Ground: A Critique of Subsumption Theory and Its Application to Small-Scale Forest Carbon Offsetting in Uganda

Pages 1082-1093 | Received 01 May 2017, Accepted 07 Nov 2017, Published online: 01 Feb 2018

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