Education for sustainability in the built environment: What are students telling US?

Association of Researchers in Construction Management, ARCOM 2010 - Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1447-1456

  Iyer Raniga, Usha ^a   Arcari, Paula ^a   Wong, James P C ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Education; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BUILT ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATIC CHANGES; CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; COURSE EVALUATIONS; MELBOURNE; SINGAPORE; STANDARD EVALUATIONS; SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION; SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS; WORKING LIFE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CURRICULA; EDUCATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; SURVEYS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84861029518     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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