Sustainability: Virtuous or vulgar?

BioScience

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 539-544

  Vucetich, John A ^a   Nelson, Michael P ^b  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anthropocentrism; ecosystem health; environmental ethics; sustainable harvest; virtue ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954589668     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2010.60.7.9     Document Type: Article

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