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The Role of Gender in Park-People Relationships in Nepal

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    Teri D. Allendorf

  2. Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

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Allendorf, T.D., Allendorf, K. The Role of Gender in Park-People Relationships in Nepal. Hum Ecol 40, 789–796 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-012-9510-7

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