Teaching sustainable development to engineering students

International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 267-279

  Perdan, Slobodan ^a   Azapagic, Adisa ^a   Clift, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education; Engineering; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986097788     PISSN: 14676370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14676370010378176     Document Type: Article

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