Green Economy - The Next Oxymoron? No lessons learned from failures of implementing sustainable development

GAIA

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 28-32

  Brand, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Environmental politics; Imperial mode of living; Implementation failure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859404816     PISSN: 09405550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14512/gaia.21.1.9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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