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Who knows the river? Gender, expertise, and the politics of local ecological knowledge production of the Salween River, Thai-Myanmar border

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Pages 1703-1718 | Received 30 Mar 2017, Accepted 24 Feb 2018, Published online: 25 Aug 2018

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