Defining and measuring urban sustainability: a review of indicators

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  2015

• Venue

  Landscape Ecology

• Publication date

  2015-05-08

• Fields of study

  Political Science, Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s10980-015-0208-2
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