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Travel-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions from American Society of Landscape Architects Annual Meetings

Rob Kuper
Landscape Journal, January 2019, 38 (1-2) 105-127; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.38.1-2.105

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