Sustainability science: the changing landscape of sustainability research

Sustainability Science

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 431-438

  Kajikawa, Yuya ^a   Tacoa, Francisco ^b   Yamaguchi, Kiyohiro ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Citation network; Network analysis; Overview map; Research on research; Sustainability science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910151501     PISSN: 18624065     EISSN: 18624057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-014-0244-x     Document Type: Article

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