Sustainable university research and development: inspecting sustainability in higher education research

Environmental Education Research

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 607-623

  Beringer, Almut ^a   Adomßent, Maik ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

campus greening; higher education; institutional transformation; research; sustainability; sustainable university

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149137436     PISSN: 13504622     EISSN: 14695871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504620802464866     Document Type: Article

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