Rock On!: bringing strategic sustainable development to music festivals

Progress in Industrial Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 285-306

  Brooks, Sarah ^a   Magnin, Alexandre ^a   O’Halloran, Dan ^b  

^a The Natural Step Canada   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

backcasting; education; events; festivals; music; strategic sustainable development; the Natural Step framework

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053289677     PISSN: 14768917     EISSN: 14788764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/PIE.2009.031066     Document Type: Article

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