Sustainability: Characteristics and scientific roots

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 257-276

  Quental, Nuno ^a   Lourenço, Júlia M ^b   da Silva, Fernando Nunes ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Ecological economics; Scientific development; Sustainability; Sustainability science; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOPHYSICS; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; LITERATURE REVIEW; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 79952069757     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10668-010-9260-x     Document Type: Article

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