Sustainability: Perceptions of Problems and Progress of the Paradigm

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-13

  Pearson, Craig J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emergent properties; Hierarchy; Multidimensionality; Policy; Problem determined systems; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009556877     PISSN: 14735903     EISSN: 1747762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3763/ijas.2003.0102     Document Type: Article

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