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ARTICLES

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND ICT INTERPRETED IN A NATURAL SCIENCE CONTEXT

The resulting research questions for the social sciences

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Pages 7-22 | Received 17 Jul 2009, Published online: 10 Feb 2010

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