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9 - The “Good Anthropocene” and Green Political Theory: Rethinking Environmentalism, Resisting Eco-modernism

from Part III - The Practices of Political Study in the Anthropocene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2019

Frank Biermann
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Eva Lövbrand
Affiliation:
Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
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