Communication regarding sustainability: Conceptual perspectives and exploration of societal subsystems

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2976-2990

  Newig, Jens ^a   Schulz, Daniel ^a   Fischer, Daniel ^a   Hetze, Katharina ^a   Laws, Norman ^a   Lüdecke, Gesa ^a   Rieckmann, Marco ^b  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VECHTA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Communication of. about and for sustainability; Deliberation; Governance; Sustainability communication; Transdisciplinarity; Typology of communication

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TYPOLOGY;

GERMANY;

EID: 84882950262     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su5072976     Document Type: Article

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