Sustainability indicators: Measuring the immeasurable? Second edition

Sustainability Indicators: Measuring the Immeasurable? Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-228

  Bell, Simon ^a,b   Morse, Stephen ^c  

^a Bayswater Institute   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84909262485     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781849772723     Document Type: Book

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