Economic growth, climate change, biodiversity loss: Distributive justice for the global north and south

Conservation Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1409-1417

  Rosales, Jon ^a  

^a ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate change; Distributive justice; Economic growth; Equity; Per capita emissions

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; EQUITY;

AIR POLLUTANT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ETHICS; GEOGRAPHY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; REVIEW; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECONOMICS; GEOGRAPHY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 57449104948     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01091.x     Document Type: Review

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