Selecting headline indicators for tracking progress to sustainability in a nation state

Sustainable Development Indicators in Ecological Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 421-448

  Patterson, Murray ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

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