Technology and the possibility of global environmental science.
Global environmental science, in its current configuration as predominantly interdisciplinary earth systems analysis, owes its existence to technological development in three respects. (1) Environmental impacts of globalization of corporate and military industrial development linked to widespread us...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 168; no. 3; pp. 433 - 453 |
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Jun2009
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