Acceptable risk to future generations

The Ethics of Technological Risk

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 77-91

  Davidson, Marc D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84925809986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781849772990     Document Type: Chapter

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