The virtues of mundane science

Environment

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 10-41

  Kammen, Daniel M ^a   Dove, Michael R ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST WEST CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; POLICY; POLITICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW;

EID: 0030877422     PISSN: 00139157     EISSN: 19399154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00139159709603654     Document Type: Article

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