Sustainable facilities: Institutional compliance and the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city Project

Facilities

Volumn 27, Issue 9-10, 2009, Pages 368-386

  Low, Sui Pheng ^a   Liu, Jun Ying ^b   Wu, Peng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Environmental regulations; Facilities; Singapore; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349646133     PISSN: 02632772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02632770910969612     Document Type: Article

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