Overcoming systemic roadblocks to sustainability: The evolutionary redesign of worldviews, institutions, and technologies

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2009-02-24

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Philosophy, Business, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.0812570106PMID 19240221PMCID PMC2650289
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