A system dynamics-based environmental performance simulation of construction waste reduction management in China

Waste Management

Volumn 51, Issue , 2016, Pages 130-141

  Ding, Zhikun ^a   Yi, Guizhen ^a   Tam, Vivian W Y ^b   Huang, Tengyue ^a  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Construction waste reduction management; System dynamics; Theory of planned behaviors

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEM THEORY;

CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES; CONSTRUCTION WASTE MANAGEMENTS; CONSTRUCTION WASTES; ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; SYSTEM DYNAMIC MODELS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECYCLING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; CHINA; CONSTRUCTION WASTE REDUCTION MANAGEMENT; CONSTRUCTION WORK; DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GOVERNMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT; ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; SHENZHEN;

INDUSTRIAL WASTE;

CHINA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RECYCLING; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84977962697     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2016.03.001     Document Type: Article

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