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Biodiversity, Sustainability, Growth: Thoughts of a Mathematician


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The topics of Biodiversity, Sustainability and Growth are strictly entangled. Some thoughts on the scientific and political aspects of the relations between them are presented, in the perspective of mathematical models.


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Mathematical models; Economics; Life sciences; Biodiversity; Sustainability; Growth

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2423/i22394303v14Sp11

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