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Climate Change and the Voiceless: Protecting Future Generations, Wildlife, and Natural Resources, by Randall S. Abate Cambridge University Press, 2019, 245 pp, £84.99 hb, £26.99 pb, $28.00 ebk ISBN 9781108480116 hb, 9781108703222 pb, 9781108571876 ebk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2020

Lisa Benjamin
Lisa Benjamin*
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Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR (United States)
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Transnational Environmental Law , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , July 2020 , pp. 379 - 384
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