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Special issue on Industrial Ecology to Enhance Ecosystem Health towards Sustainability

Temporal and spatial variation in the environmental impacts of China’s resource extraction at the provincial scale

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Article: 1812434 | Received 27 Jun 2020, Accepted 13 Aug 2020, Published online: 09 Nov 2020

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