Bottom rail on top: The shifting sands of sustainable development indicators as tools to assess progress

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2421-2441

  Morse, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gross domestic product (GDP); Human development index (HDI); Indicator transformation methodology; Sustainable development goals

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; DATA SET; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX; LIFE EXPECTANCY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84882981847     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su5062421     Document Type: Article

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