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Guest Comment: Human Rights and the Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Arthur H. Westing
Affiliation:
Westing Associates in Environment, Security & Education, RFD 1, Box 919, Putney, Vermont 05346, USA.
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