Converging Currents in Climate-Relevant Conservation: Water, Infrastructure, and Institutions
Open Access
- 6 September 2011
- journal article
- perspective
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Biology
- Vol. 9 (9), e1001159
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001159
Abstract
Ecologists and economists have long talked past each other, but climate change presents similar threats to both groups. Water may serve as the best means of finding a common cause and building a new vision of ecological and economic sustainability, especially in the developing world.Keywords
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