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Brazil’s Samuel Dam: Lessons for Hydroelectric Development Policy and the Environment in Amazonia

✍ Scribed by Philip M. Fearnside

Publisher
Springer
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
684 KB
Volume
35
Category
Article
ISSN
0364-152X

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