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ecological debt: a standalone construct

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Sustainability science

the environmental damage that wealthier nations impose on poorer ones through their consumption, valued as a debt owed.

In sustainability science, ecological debt refers to the environmental damage that wealthier nations impose on poorer ones through their consumption, valued as a debt owed. This meaning comes from Srinivasan (2008) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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consumption3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs debt3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three carriers sustainability science1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Srinivasan, U. T., Carey, S. P., Hallstein, E., Higgins, P. A. T., Kerr, A. C., Koteen, L. E., Smith, A. B., Watson, R., Harte, J., & Norgaard, R. B. (2008). The debt of nations and the distribution of ecological impacts from human activities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(5), 1768-1773. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0709562104

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