Embedded value systems in sustainability assessment tools and their implications
This paper explores the implications that arise with the selection of specific sustainability evaluation tools. Sustainability evaluation tools are conceptualized in this paper as value articulating institutions and as such their choice is a far from a trivial matter. In fact their choice can entail...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Environmental Management Vol. 91; no. 8; pp. 1613 - 1623 |
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Academic Press Inc.
Aug2010
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