Sustainable development and climate change: applying the sustainomics transdisciplinary meta-framework

International Journal of Global Environmental Issues

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 13-55

  Munasinghe, Mohan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

climate change; Sustainable development; sustainomics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010444747     PISSN: 14666650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJGENVI.2001.000970     Document Type: Article

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