Sustainability evaluation of an urban residential settlement

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 189-203

  Mani, Monto ^a   Varghese, Koshy ^b   Ganesh, L S ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Attitude; Cross impact analysis; Living environment; Sustainability; Urban residential settlement; Water and sanitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013987308     PISSN: 15829596     EISSN: 18433707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30638/eemj.2007.023     Document Type: Article

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