Global sustainability: Bending the curve

Global Sustainability: Bending the Curve

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-221

  Gallopín, Gilberto C ^a   Raskin, Paul D ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b NONE

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203166260     Document Type: Book

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