Sustainability in the built environment: Factors and a decision framework

Handbook of Corporate Sustainability: Frameworks, Strategies and Tools

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 113-136

  Sarkis, Joseph ^a   Meade, Laura ^b   Presley, Adrien ^c  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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