Nature's role in sustaining economic development
Open Access
- 12 January 2010
- journal article
- review article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
- Vol. 365 (1537) , 5-11
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0231
Abstract
In this paper, I formalize the idea of sustainable development in terms of intergenerational well-being. I then sketch an argument that has recently been put forward formally to demonstrate that in...Keywords
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