What is the crisis? Defining and prioritizing the world's most pressing problems

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 469-475

  Cabrera, Derek ^a,b,c   Mandel, James T ^a   Andras, Jason P ^a   Nydam, Marie L ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c ThinkWorks   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GLOBAL WARMING;

EID: 57349128476     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/070185     Document Type: Article

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