Reconsidering the economics logic of ecological modernization

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1331-1346

  Korhonen, Jouni ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY;

EID: 45149100427     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a38363     Document Type: Article

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