Designing Sustainability Indicator Frameworks for Information Flow: A Case Study of B-Sustainable

Applied Research in Quality of Life

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 325-339

  Sonntag, Viki ^a  

^a EcoPraxis and Sustainable Seattle   (United States)

Author keywords

Indicator frameworks; Information flows; Social learning; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 79451474339     PISSN: 18712584     EISSN: 18712576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11482-010-9115-5     Document Type: Article

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