Browsing Interdisciplinary Centres & Research Groups by Subject "Sustainable development"

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Building reuse assessment for sustainable urban reconstruction

Laefer, Debra F. ; Manke, Jonathan P. (American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE), 2008-03)

Building reuse is a linchpin to managing solid waste. Despite the various benefits beyond contributing to sustainability that can be realized through building reuse, including direct and indirect cost savings, truncated ...
Genuine savings : leading indicator of sustainable development?

Ferreira, S. (Susana) ; Vincent, Jeffrey R. (University of Chicago Press, 2005-04)

The World Bank recently began publishing estimates of countries' “genuine savings”: a comprehensive measure of net investment across all forms of capital (natural and human as well as produced). This article presents the ...