Sustainability Performance Indicators

Renewables-Based Technology: Sustainability Assessment

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 39-53

  Lapkin, Alexei ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecological balance; Environmental sustainability technology assessment; Social development and equity; Sustainability pan national programmes; Sustainability metrics for technology assessment; Sustainability metrics hierarchy; Sustainability performance indicators; Sustained economic stability; Technology breakthroughs

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845959181     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470022442.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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