Environmental assessment methodologies for commercial buildings: An elicitation study of U.S. building professionals' Beliefs on leadership in energy and environmental design (LEED)

Sustainability

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2392-2412

  Kientzel, Jasmin ^a   Kok, Gerjo ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Belief elicitation; Environmental psychology; Green buildings; Leed; Voluntary environmental programs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867409363     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su3122392     Document Type: Article

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