The environmental limits to globalization

Conservation Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 318-326

  Ehrenfeld, David ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural biodiversity; Cheap energy; Complex societies; Environmental limits; Globalization; Invasive species; Species loss

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GLOBALIZATION; POLLUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

ALBURNUS ALBURNUS; ANIMALIA;

EID: 14044251157     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00324.x     Document Type: Review

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