Sustainability through system transformation: Lessons from Finnish efforts

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 1779-1787

  Mickwitz, Per ^a,b   Hildén, Mikael ^a   Seppälä, Jyri ^a   Melanen, Matti ^a  

^a FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Learning; Policy; Rio+20; Sustainable consumption and production; Sustainable development; System transformation

Indexed keywords

CLEANER PRODUCTION; FINLAND; FINNISH; GLOBAL CONTEXT; GLOBALISATION; LEARNING; LEARNING PROCESS; RIO+20; SINGULAR SOLUTIONS; STUMBLING BLOCKS; SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION; SYSTEM BOUNDARY; SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION; TOPDOWN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; POLLUTION CONTROL;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 80052037762     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2011.07.011     Document Type: Article

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