Achieving campus sustainability: Top-down, bottom-up, or neither?

International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 338-354

  Brinkhurst, Marena ^a   Rose, Peter ^a   Maurice, Gillian ^a   Ackerman, Josef Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Faculty and staff; Intrapreneurs; Leadership; Organizational behaviour; Sustainability; Sustainable universities; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053330058     PISSN: 14676370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14676371111168269     Document Type: Review

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