Evolutionary thinking in environmental economics
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Evolutionary thinking in environmental economics
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Evolutionary Economics
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0936-9937,1432-1386
DOI: 10.1007/s00191-006-0054-0