Potentials for decoupling housing-related environmental impacts from economic growth

Environmental Development

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-35

  Xue, Jin ^a  

^a NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Decoupling; Degrowth; Economic growth; Environmental sustainability; Housing sector

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872383471     PISSN: 22114645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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