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

2017-01-01
Kılkış, Şiir
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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.
Indicators, Energy, Water, Environment systems, Living laboratories, Sustainable campuses, HIGHER-EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS, UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, FOOTPRINT ANALYSIS, RENEWABLE ENERGY, IMPLEMENTATION, BUILDINGS, EMISSION, PERSPECTIVES, METHODOLOGY, CONSUMPTION
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/94755
MANAGEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Article

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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.
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