Ecological indicators for green building construction

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 67, Issue , 2016, Pages 68-77

  Liu, Hongxun ^a   Lin, Boqiang ^b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ecological indicators; Green building construction; Meta frontier technologies; Regional heterogeneities; Slack based efficiency measure

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; GREENHOUSE GASES; HISTORIC PRESERVATION; NATURAL RESOURCES;

DATA ENVELOP ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS; ECOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE; EFFICIENCY MEASURE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES; GREEN BUILDINGS; REGIONAL HETEROGENEITIES; RESOURCE CONSERVATION;

CONSTRUCTION;

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HETEROGENEITY; POLICY MAKING;

CHINA;

EID: 84959329332     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.02.024     Document Type: Article

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