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LEED Certification of Campus Buildings: A Cost-Benefit Approach [PDF]

Journal of Sustainable Real Estate, 2015
This is the first comprehensive cost-benefit analysis of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) buildings certified within the higher education sector. Sixteen institutions of higher education (IHEs) were surveyed with the findings focused on the upfront green premium and down the line energy savings. The net present value (NPV), internal
openaire   +1 more source

Hidden Costs of Ethical Fashion: Sustainable Development Goals and Garment Worker Exploitation in Bangladesh

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across garment factories in the Global South, the promise of “ethical fashion” coexists with poverty wages and retaliation. This study examines why the global call for decent work has not improved labor conditions in Bangladesh's ready‐made garment industry.
Md. Rafiqul Islam Rana
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating State-of-the-Art LEED-NCv4 in the U.S.

Applied Sciences, 2020
To date, no empirical evidence has been published on the certification achievements of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for New Construction (LEED-NCv4) projects.
Svetlana Pushkar
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HRTEM Imaging and Mechanistic Insights Into Carbon Nanotube Nucleation and Growth on Fe Nanocatalysts in a Thermal Plasma

Small Methods, EarlyView.
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were successfully debundled from Tuball soots produced using iron nanocatalysts in arc discharge thermal plasma and distributed on monolayer graphene for HRTEM imaging for mechanistic insights into CNT synthesis. Zigzag single‐wall or double‐wall CNTs were identified.
Hengfei Gu, Stanislav Musikhin, Guangming Cheng, Nan Yao, Yevgeny Raitses, Bruce E. Koel   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Rating System to Thought Leadership: The Evolution of the Canada Green Building Council

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Green Building Social Movement Organizations encourage the adoption of green buildings, primarily by promoting sustainability rating tools. While numerous papers have explored the market impact of these sustainability rating tools, very few have examined either the lengthy and protracted process of their selection and enrollment by ...
J. J. McArthur, Stephen Dunne, Sarah Birrell Ivory   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is a Green Building an Energy Efficient Building? [PDF]

, 2007
Is a “green building” an energy efficient building? Unfortunately, the answer to that question is “not necessarily.” As the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) notes, green building rating systems are flexible, and buildings with poor energy ...
Mindy, Steven
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The Interactive Impact of Regulation, Entrepreneurship, and Cultural Values on Technology Adoption: Renewable Energy in the EU

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract How can diverse sources legitimize new technology when it lacks economic parity? Government policies that endorse nascent technologies play a central role through regulatory legitimation. Yet, we know less about whether inducement policies that incentivize adoption or imposition policies that mandate it are more effective, and how that ...
Raquel Antolín‐López, Jeffrey G. York, Theodore L. Waldron, Javier Martínez‐del‐Rio   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The (Im)possibilities of Repopulation: How Supply‐Side Factors Hinder the Revitalisation of Vacant Houses in Rural Mountain Regions

The Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract Industrialisation has reshaped European rural areas, leading to both depopulation and, in some cases, lifestyle‐driven repopulation. Our research highlights supply‐side barriers to Alpine repopulation by unpacking the impossibilities of vacant farmhouses revitalisation. Both land transfer traditions ingrained over generation (micro‐level
Bernhard Grüner, Elisabeth Gruber
wiley   +1 more source

Are Green Spaces More Available and Accessible to Green Building Users? A Comparative Study in Texas

Land, 2023
Green buildings (GBs) and green spaces (GSs) play a key foundational role as important drivers of urban Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There have been many studies on the spatial distribution of GBs and GSs, but relevant studies exploring the ...
Senhong Cai, Zhonghua Gou
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Assessing and Developing the Application of LEED Green Building Rating System as a Sustainable Project Management and Market Tool in the Italian Context [PDF]

Journal of Engineering, Project, and Production Management, 2016
The paper discusses the recent introduction of the LEED system to the Italian context in order to assess its role to promote sustainable building process in the Italian context, pointing out its potentials on one hand as well as their gaps and ...
Walaa S. E. Ismaee
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