Economics and "Sustainability": Balancing Trade-Offs and Imperatives
- 1 November 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Wisconsin Press in Land Economics
- Vol. 70 (4), 399-413
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3146637
Abstract
The concept of "sustainability" has been increasingly invoked in scholarly and public policy debates. Discussion has been hampered, however, by uncert...This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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