Ergonomics and sustainability: Towards an embrace of complexity and emergence

Ergonomics

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 357-364

  Dekker, Sidney W A ^a   Hancock, Peter A ^b   Wilkin, Peter ^c  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

complexity; emergence; epistemology; ergonomics; ethics; sustainability

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; EMERGENCE; EPISTEMOLOGY; ETHICS; GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY; HUMAN BEING; LOCAL ADAPTATION; QUALITY OF LIFE;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ERGONOMICS;

BIOENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ETHICS; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; TECHNOLOGY; ARTICLE;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84875967730     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2012.718799     Document Type: Article

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