The limits to sustainability science: Ecological constraints or endless innovation?

PLoS Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Mace, Georgina M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); PESSIMISM; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WELLBEING; ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; NOTE; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; HUMANS; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

EID: 84863683391     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001343     Document Type: Article

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