Urban sustainability assessment systems: How appropriate are global sustainability assessment systems?

PLEA 2011 - Architecture and Sustainable Development, Conference Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 145-150

  Kyrkou, Dimitra ^a   Taylor, Melissa ^b   Pelsmakers, Sofie ^a   Karthaus, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Hilson Moran and PassivHaus Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment systems; BREEAM Communities; LEED ND; Tools; Urban sustainability

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT SYSTEM; GLOBAL OBJECTIVE; GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY; GLOBAL SYSTEMS; LOCAL APPROACHES; LOCAL COMMUNITY; NEIGHBOURHOOD; PILOT SCHEME; QUALITATIVE ASPECTS; RESEARCH PAPERS; SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT; URBAN SUSTAINABILITY; US GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL;

ARCHITECTURE; PLANNING; RESEARCH; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SURVEYS; TOOLS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84864139355     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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