Quick fixes for the environment: Part of the solution or part of the problem?

Thomas Sterner; Max Troell; Jeffrey Vincent; Sara Aniyar; Scott Barrett; William Brock; Stephen Carpenter; Kanchan Chopra; Paul Ehrlich; Michael Hoel; Simon Levin; Karl Göran Mäler; Jon Norberg; Leif Pihl; Tore Söderqvist; James Wilen; Anastasios Xepapadeas

doi:10.3200/ENVT.48.10.20-27

Quick fixes for the environment: Part of the solution or part of the problem?

Thomas Sterner, Max Troell, Jeffrey Vincent, Sara Aniyar, Scott Barrett, William Brock, Stephen Carpenter, Kanchan Chopra, Paul Ehrlich, Michael Hoel, Simon Levin, Karl Göran Mäler, Jon Norberg, Leif Pihl, Tore Söderqvist, James Wilen, Anastasios Xepapadeas

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When faced with large-scale environmental problems that need immediate attention-such as flooding or collapsing fish stocks-society has tended to address the symptoms rather than fundamental solutions. Can we continue to go for the quick fixes?

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	20-27
Number of pages	8
Journal	Environment
Volume	48
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3200/ENVT.48.10.20-27
State	Published - Dec 2006

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Global and Planetary Change
Environmental Engineering
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Water Science and Technology

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Sterner, T., Troell, M., Vincent, J., Aniyar, S., Barrett, S., Brock, W., Carpenter, S., Chopra, K., Ehrlich, P., Hoel, M., Levin, S., Mäler, K. G., Norberg, J., Pihl, L., Söderqvist, T., Wilen, J., & Xepapadeas, A. (2006). Quick fixes for the environment: Part of the solution or part of the problem? Environment, 48(10), 20-27. https://doi.org/10.3200/ENVT.48.10.20-27

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