Religion and Sustainable Development: Analysing the Connections

Sustainable Development

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 131-139

  Narayanan, Yamini ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecological activism; Fundamentalism; Religion; Self and sustainability; Sustainable development; Values

Indexed keywords

RELIGION; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84876452693     PISSN: 09680802     EISSN: 10991719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sd.1557     Document Type: Article

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