Fragility – Sustainability: Two Conflicting Major Challenges of this Twenty-First Century
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عنوان ژورنال: Mercados y Negocios
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1665-7039,2594-0163
DOI: 10.32870/myn.v0i39.7335