Sustainability and materiality: the bioregional and cultural challenges to evaluation

Local Environment

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 191-209

  Stevenson, Fionn ^a   Ball, Jonathan ^a  

^a ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL INFLUENCE; ECOLABELLING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; LIFE GUIDE ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY INDICATOR;

GRAMPIAN; SCOTLAND; UK;

EID: 0031729850     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549839808725557     Document Type: Article

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