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Lakshman Yapa
Lakshman Yapa
Email:
lxy3@psu.edu
Phone:
814 865 3433
Office Address:
302 Walker Building
Title:
Professor Emeritus of Geography
Unit:
Department of Geography
Expertise:
Post-modern discourse theory
Third World
theories of poverty
community development
GIS applications
public scholarship and service learning
