When consumption does violence: Can there be sustainability and environmental justice in a resource-limited world?

Just Sustainabilities Development in an Unequal World

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 99-124

  Rees, William E ^a   Westra, Laura ^a  

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EID: 84925746539     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781849771771     Document Type: Chapter

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