Sustainable property funds: Financial stakeholders' views on sustainability criteria and market acceptance

Building Research and Information

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 246-263

  Bügl, Robert ^a   Leimgruber, Christian ^a,b   Hüni, Guido R ^a,c   Scholz, Roland W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UBS Global Asset Management   (Switzerland)

^c Union Bank of Switzerland   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Key financial stakeholders; Market acceptance; Responsible property investment; Sustainability criteria; Sustainable real estate funds

Indexed keywords

KEY FINANCIAL STAKEHOLDERS; MARKET ACCEPTANCE; RESPONSIBLE PROPERTY INVESTMENT; SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA; SUSTAINABLE REAL ESTATE FUNDS;

BUILDING MATERIALS; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MARKETING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 67651210446     PISSN: 09613218     EISSN: 14664321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09613210902843494     Document Type: Article

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