Unintended consequences: How the use of leed can inadvertently fail to benefit the environment

Journal of Green Building

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 152-161

  Bray, Jeremy ^a   McCurry, Natasha ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Green building; LEED; Sustainability; Unintended consequences

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953193165     PISSN: 15526100     EISSN: 19434618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3992/jgb.1.4.152     Document Type: Article

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