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Case study: industry

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Nowhere are environmental dilemmas more acutely felt than in the relationship of industry and business with the rest of society; nowhere are generalizations and over-simplifications about such dilemmas more likely to confuse the issues.

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© 1993 R.J. Berry

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Wyburd, G. (1993). Case study: industry. In: Berry, R. (eds) Environmental Dilemmas. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-36577-0_13

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