Sisters in sustainability: Municipal partnerships for social, environmental, and economic growth

Sustainability Science

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 277-292

  McLarty, Dustin ^a,b   Davis, Nora ^a   Gellers, Joshua ^a   Nasrollahi, Nasrin ^a,b   Altenbernd, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Cities; Local; Metrics; Partnerships; Sustainability; Transdisciplinary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904214469     PISSN: 18624065     EISSN: 18624057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-014-0248-6     Document Type: Article

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