Stuart White, Fausto Maldonado, The Use and Conservation of Natural Resources in the Andes of Southern Ecuador, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 11, No. 1, Transformation of Mountain Environments (TOME). Part Two (Feb., 1991), pp. 37-55
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