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Original Scholarship - Empirical

Associating sense of place and nature relatedness in the British Columbia Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region: a case study

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Pages 744-764 | Received 22 Aug 2022, Accepted 06 Feb 2023, Published online: 27 Feb 2023

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