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Special Issue: Ecological and environmental democracy

Between environmental and ecological democracy: theory and practice at the democracy-environment nexus

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Pages 1-15 | Received 05 Feb 2019, Accepted 08 Dec 2019, Published online: 21 Feb 2020

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