CFP: Beyond the ‘end of Cheap Nature’: The production of waste-based commodity frontiers (AAG)
This session traces the shift from waste-as-externality to waste-as-resource, and focuses on the production of waste-based commodity frontiers.
This session traces the shift from waste-as-externality to waste-as-resource, and focuses on the production of waste-based commodity frontiers.
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