Waste, landfills, and an environmental ethic of vulnerability

Ethics and the Environment

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 105-124

  Hird, Myra J ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 84879212677     PISSN: 10856633     EISSN: 15355306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2979/ethicsenviro.18.1.105     Document Type: Article

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