Comparative analyses of sustainable campuses as living laboratories for managing environmental quality

2017-01-01
Kılkış, Şiir
Purpose - Despite an emerging trend in the higher education sector toward sustainable campuses, comparative analyses that span multiple themes across multiple campuses are still limited. The purpose of this paper is to reduce such a gap by comparing universities that are members of the International Sustainable Campus Network across themes that are related to environmental quality.
MANAGEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

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Citation Formats
Ş. Kılkış, “Comparative analyses of sustainable campuses as living laboratories for managing environmental quality,” MANAGEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 681–702, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/94755.