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  • The Durable Use of Consumer Products

    New Options for Business and Consumption

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    Series series Business and Management (R0)
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    The major challenge for the current generation of mankind is to develop a shared vision of a future that is both desirable to the vast majority of humanity and ecologically sustainable. Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future offers a broad, critical discussion on what such a future should or can be, with global perspectives written by some of the world's leading thinkers, including: Wendell ... Leer más

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    Series series Advances in Ecological Economics series
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    Series series Business and Management (R0)
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  • Science and Public Reason

    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
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    de John Williams ...
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  • The Economic Value of Landscapes

    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
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