Needs, capabilities and quality of life: Refocusing sustainable development

Sustainable Development: Capabilities, Needs, and Well-being

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-24

  Rauschmayer, Felix ^a   Omann, Ines ^b   Frühmann, Johannes ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b Sustainable Europe Research Institute Austria   (Austria)

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