Assessing impacts: Overview on sustainability indicators and metrics

Environmental Quality Management

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 41-56

  Tanzil, Dicksen ^a   Beloff, Beth R ^a,b  

^a GOLDER ASSOCIATES INC   (United States)

^b BRIDGES to Sustainability Institute

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 37849189336     PISSN: 10881913     EISSN: 15206483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tqem.20101     Document Type: Review

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