Reconsidering wilderness: Prospective ethics for nature, technology, and society

Ethics, Place and Environment

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 47-62

  Havlick, David ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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ENVIRONMENTAL AND RESOURCE PLANNING, POLICY AND MANAGEMENT; ETHICS;

EID: 33645278109     PISSN: 1366879X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13668790500512563     Document Type: Article

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