Promoting Earth Stewardship through urban design experiments

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 362-367

  Felson, Alexander J ^a,b   Bradford, Mark A ^a   Terway, Timothy M ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 84883388637     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/130061     Document Type: Review

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