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What price interdisciplinarity?: crossing the curriculum in environmental higher education

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What price interdisciplinarity? crossing the curriculum in environmental higher education. / Foster, John.
In: Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Vol. 23, No. 3, 11.1999, p. 358-366.

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Foster, J 1999, 'What price interdisciplinarity? crossing the curriculum in environmental higher education', Journal of Geography in Higher Education, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 358-366. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098269985308

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Foster, J. (1999). What price interdisciplinarity? crossing the curriculum in environmental higher education. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 23(3), 358-366. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098269985308

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Foster J. What price interdisciplinarity? crossing the curriculum in environmental higher education. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 1999 Nov;23(3):358-366. doi: 10.1080/03098269985308

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Foster, John. / What price interdisciplinarity? crossing the curriculum in environmental higher education. In: Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 1999 ; Vol. 23, No. 3. pp. 358-366.

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