Sustainability between necessity, contingency and impossibility

Sustainability

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1388-1411

  Bruckmeier, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ecological distribution conflicts; Interdisciplinary frameworks; Natural resource management; Nature society interrelations; Rebound effect; Sustainability; Sustainable development; Transdisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866463479     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su1041388     Document Type: Article

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