Sustainability and ethics as decision-making paradigms in engineering curricula

International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 170-182

  El Zein, Abbas ^a   Airey, David ^a   Bowden, Peter ^b   Clarkeburn, Henriikka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Civil engineering; Decision making; Ethics; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449147533     PISSN: 14676370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14676370810856314     Document Type: Article

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