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How to Think about the Future: History, Climate Change, and Conflict

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Peter Walker
Peter Walker
Affiliation:
Director, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts USA
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 24 , supplement S2: 2009 Humanitarian Action Summit , August 2009 , pp. s244 - s246
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2009

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