Protecting future generations: Intergenerational buck-passing, theoretical ineptitude and a brief for a global core precautionary principle

Handbook of Intergenerational Justice

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 148-169

  Gardiner, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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