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Kirsten Oleson

Kirsten Oleson is an ecological economist. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University's interdisciplinary program in environment and resources.

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The earth’s climate is the ultimate example of a global commons—a shared resource vital to survival for all the earth’s inhabitants. Human actions that degrade it therefore present a set of notoriously...
Chandra Shekhar Sinha, Kirsten Oleson
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