Synthesising case-study research - ready for the next step?

Environmental Education Research

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 751-764

  Barth, Matthias ^a   Thomas, Ian ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

case study; higher education for sustainable development; meta analysis; research methodology; research synthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869155827     PISSN: 13504622     EISSN: 14695871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2012.665849     Document Type: Article

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