The world that became ruined. Our cognitive incapacity to perceive large-scale and long-term changes is a major obstacle to rational environmental policies

EMBO Reports

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Hanski, Ilkka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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Indexed keywords

FOSSIL FUEL;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COGNITION; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EVOLUTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HABITAT SELECTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS; PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 45749157561     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2008.77     Document Type: Article

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