Monitoring sustainability in insular areas

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 179-187

  Spilanis, Ioannis ^a   Kizos, Thanasis ^a   Koulouri, Maria ^a   Kondyli, Julia ^a   Vakoufaris, Hristos ^a   Gatsis, Ioannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean islands; Greece; Islands; State indicators; Sustainability indicators; Sustainability measurement

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LANDFORMS; PLANNING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ELSEVIER (CO); INTERNATIONAL (CO); POLICY LEVEL;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTIMATION METHOD; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; ISLAND; POLICY APPROACH; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AEGADIAN ISLANDS; CYCLADAS; DODECANESE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; ITALY; KOS; PAROS; SICILY; SOUTHERN AEGEAN; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TRAPANI;

EID: 48149113114     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2008.03.003     Document Type: Article

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