Sustainable development: A problem of environmental disruption now instead of intertemporal ethics

Sustainable Development

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 150-160

  Ng, Yew Kwang ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ETHICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

EID: 4143077045     PISSN: 09680802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sd.232     Document Type: Article

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