Comparing futures: A positional approach to population ethics

Ecological Economics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 345-357

  Mainwaring, Lynn ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental futures; Frame of reference; Population ethics; Positional utilitarianism

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTALISM; ETHICS; FUTURE PROSPECT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

GOES;

EID: 1842486723     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2003.10.012     Document Type: Article

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