Islands of Sustainability: A Bottom-up Approach towards Sustainable Development
- 1 October 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
- Vol. 28 (10) , 1763-1778
- https://doi.org/10.1068/a281763
Abstract
In this paper we introduce the concept of ‘islands of sustainability’. The basic assumption is that the development towards sustainability can be introduced sta...Keywords
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