Social sustainability: Participant-led dialogue as a basis for the development of a conceptual framework for energy infrastructure decisions

International Journal of Sustainability Policy and Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1-13

  Whitton, John ^a   Parry, Ioan ^a   Howe, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Criteria; Decision making; Dialogue; Energy infrastructure; Social sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899836683     PISSN: 23251166     EISSN: 23251182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18848/2325-1166/cgp/v09i03/55425     Document Type: Article

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