Some Truths Don’t Matter: The Case of Strong Sustainability

Ethics, Policy and Environment 22 (2):184-196 (2019)
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1. Social scientific models of sustainable development show that, for the goal of sustainability, the aggregate level of capital must remain intact. With respect to these models, there is no greate...

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10.1080/21550085.2019.1625543

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C. Tyler DesRoches
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On the Concept and Conservation of Critical Natural Capital.C. Tyler DesRoches - 2020 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (N/A):1-22.

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