Bottom Rail on Top: The Shifting Sands of Sustainable Development Indicators as Tools to Assess Progress
The Human Development Index (HDI) is often employed to capture some of the more social concerns in sustainable development at the scale of the nation-state. The HDI is founded on three components; life expectancy, education and income per capita. To avoid a dominance of the income component, proxied...
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Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2013-05-01
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Series: | Sustainability |
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/5/6/2421 |