Interculturality as Paradigm to Promote Social and Environmental Sustainability

Anthony Le Duc

In Religion, Culture, and Ecological Flourishing in Asian Contexts. Edited by Anthony Le Duc. Bangkok: ARC, 2025
pp. 169–187

DOI: 10.35784/preko.5754

This is an open access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

This article was previosly published in Problemy Ekorozwoju/ Problems of Sustainable Development 19, no. 1 (2024): 148-158.

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