A survey of national sustainable development indicators

International Journal of Sustainable Development

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 337-361

  Tasaki, Tomohiro ^a   Kameyama, Yasuko ^b   Seiji, Hashimoto ^a   Moriguchi, Yuichi ^a   Hideo, Harasawa ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b National Institute for Environmental Studies   (Japan)

Author keywords

Categorisation; Database; Economic indicator; Environmental indicator; Environmental information; National indicator; SD; Social indicator; Statistics; Sustainability; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; PLANNING; STATISTICS; SURVEYS;

CATEGORISATION; ECONOMIC INDICATORS; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS; ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION; SOCIAL INDICATORS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DATABASE; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION; SOCIAL INDICATOR; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 78951488321     PISSN: 09601406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSD.2010.038173     Document Type: Review

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