Measuring sustainable development: Progress on indicators

Environment and Development Economics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 85-101

  Pearce, David ^a   Hamilton, Kirk ^a   Atkinson, Giles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0002977379     PISSN: 1355770X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1355770x00000395     Document Type: Article

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