Studying, teaching and applying sustainability visions using systems modeling

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4452-4469

  Iwaniec, David M ^a   Childers, Daniel L ^a   VanLehn, Kurt ^a   Wiek, Arnim ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Participatory modeling; Sustainability education; Sustainable futures; Transformational sustainability science; Visioning; Visions

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 84905369633     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su6074452     Document Type: Article

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