Consilience or consequences: Alternative scenarios for societal acceptance of sustainability initiatives

Renewable Resources Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 6-12

  Cairns Jr , John ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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