How frameworks can help operationalize sustainable development indicators

World Futures: Journal of General Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 137-150

  Becker, Joanna ^a  

^a Groundplan Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthroposphere; autopoietic; frameworks; heterarchy; orientors; systems.

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954705935     PISSN: 02604027     EISSN: 15561844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02604020601123205     Document Type: Article

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