The unequal exchange of Dutch cheese and Kenyan roses: Introducing and testing an LCA-based methodology for estimating ecologically unequal exchange
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.09.022
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Ecologically unequal exchange; LCA; Free-market; International trade; Core; Periphery;All these keywords.
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