Sustainable Development: Exploring the ContradictionsRoutledge, 1987 - 230 pagine Argues that environmental problems need to be looked at internationally, in terms of the global economic system, and that the degradation of the environment is not 'natural', but an historical process linked to economics and politics. |
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