Economic growth and the environment: Alternatives to the limits paradigm

BioScience

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 433-440

  Davidson, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0033856483     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2000)050[0433:EGATEA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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