Governing Planetary Nanomedicine: Environmental Sustainability and a UNESCO Universal Declaration on the Bioethics and Human Rights of Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis (Global Solar Fuels and Foods)

NanoEthics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-27

  Faunce, Thomas ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anthropocene; Artificial photosynthesis; Bioethics; Environmental ethics; Environmental sustainability; Human rights; Nanoethics; Nanotechnology; Planetary medicine; Public health ethics; Renewable energy; Solar fuels; Sustainocene; UNESCO

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860638251     PISSN: 18714757     EISSN: 18714765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-012-0144-4     Document Type: Article

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