Decoupling GDP from resource use, resource productivity and competitiveness: A cross-country comparison

Sustainable Growth and Resource Productivity: Economic and Global Policy Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 172-193

  Steger, Sören ^b   Bleischwitz, Raimund ^a  

^a Institute for Ecological Economy Research   (Germany)

^b NONE

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EID: 85076074935     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781351279208-11     Document Type: Chapter

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