Geografie 2022, 127, 55-73

https://doi.org/10.37040/geografie2022127010055

Grey greening: quiet sustainability at auto salvage yards

Pavel Mašek1,2,3ID

1Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnology, Prague, Czechia
2Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany
3University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Department of Anthropology, Pilsen, Czechia

Received October 2021
Accepted January 2022

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