The ethics of offsetting nature

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 568-573

  Ives, Christopher D ^a,b   Bekessy, Sarah A ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ETHICS; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; MORALITY; NATURE CONSERVATION; PERCEPTION; PHILOSOPHY;

EID: 84949199293     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/150021     Document Type: Article

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