Promoting sustainability literacy in construction students: Implementation and testing of a curriculum design model

Structural Survey

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 197-212

  Cotgrave, Alison J ^a   Kokkarinen, Noora ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Curriculum development; Higher education; Model testing; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960288390     PISSN: 0263080X     EISSN: 17586844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02630801111148185     Document Type: Article

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