Conceptualizing, observing, and influencing social-ecological transitions

Ecology and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Fischer Kowalski, Marina ^a   Rotmans, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Social metabolism; Sociometabolic regimes; Transition management

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; INTEGRATED APPROACH; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SOCIAL CHANGE; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 73849094771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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