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Identifying the Horse, the Cart and Their Proper Order in Sustainable Development

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The Fraser River Basin covers over 25% of the land area of the province of British Columbia, houses about 2.7 million people, and contributes about 80% of the province’s and 10% of Canada’s gross domestic product.

Michalos, A.C.: 2003. Identifying the horse, the cart and their proper order in sustainable development. Revista Italiana de Economia Demografica e Statistica, 52(1–2), pp. 151–162. © 2003 Italian Society of Economics, Demography and Statistics.

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Michalos, A.C. (2017). Identifying the Horse, the Cart and Their Proper Order in Sustainable Development. In: Development of Quality of Life Theory and Its Instruments. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51149-8_10

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