Intergenerational bargains: Negotiating our debts to the past and our obligations to the future

Futures

Volumn 54, Issue , 2013, Pages 43-52

  Anderson, Mark W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Constructed futures; Ecological economics; Equity and efficiency; Intergenerational issues; Punctuated reciprocity; Rawls; Social bequests; Sustainability science; Values

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; EQUITY; RECIPROCITY; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 84890161547     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2013.10.002     Document Type: Article

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