ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE AND GENDER JUSTICE : From Paradox to Potential
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The Forum on Social Wealth has called our attention to something profound – the numerous informal, non-market ways in which value is created in our society, our significant dependence on this common wealth, and our need to preserve and steward it. I congratulate the Forum for sounding the alert that we might lose this invaluable wealth – wealth that enriches our lives but which we take for granted and so make invisible. Indeed Nancy’s and Jim’s own work takes cognizance of these issues in subtle, creative ways.
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