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  1. Center for Sustainable Development, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

    Mohammad Al-Saidi

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  1. Faculty of Life Sciences, World Sustainable Development Research and Transfer Centre, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

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    Bernd Delakowitz

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Al-Saidi, M. (2019). Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development. In: Leal Filho, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11352-0_434

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