Sustainable development: ignorance is fatal – what don’t we know?

Smart and Sustainable Built Environment

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 14-28

  Brandon, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Context; Implementation; Information technology; Key issues for further research; Philosophical structure for sustainable development; Sustainable development; Technology infrastructure; Technology supported democracy; Time

Indexed keywords

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; PLANNING;

CONTEXT; IMPLEMENTATION; KEY ISSUE FOR FAR RESEARCH; KEY ISSUES; PHILOSOPHICAL STRUCTURE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; POTENTIAL RESEARCHES; STRUCTURED APPROACH; TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE; TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTED DEMOCRACY; TIME;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DEMOCRATIZATION; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE; PHILOSOPHY; RESEARCH; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84968680158     PISSN: 20466099     EISSN: 20466102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/20466091211227034     Document Type: Article

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