Sustainability: The matter of time horizon and semantic closure

Ecological Economics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 167-176

  Velasco, Horacio ^a  

^a NONE   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Semantic closure; Sustainability; Time horizon

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; SUSTAINABILITY; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIME ALLOCATION;

EID: 38949166786     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.05.016     Document Type: Article

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