Implementing Campus Greening Initiatives Approaches, Methods and Per
Firmly rooted in the theory and practice of sustainable development, this book offers a comprehensive resource on sustainability, focusing on both industrialized and developing nations. Implementing Campus Greening Initiatives: Approaches, Methods and Per
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Walter Leal Filho Nandhivarman Muthu Golda Edwin Mihaela Sima Editors
Implementing Campus Greening Initiatives Approaches, Methods and Perspectives
World Sustainability Series Series editor Walter Leal Filho, Hamburg, Germany
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Walter Leal Filho Nandhivarman Muthu Golda Edwin Mihaela Sima •
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Editors
Implementing Campus Greening Initiatives Approaches, Methods and Perspectives
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Editors Walter Leal Filho Faculty of Environmental Science HAW Hamburg Hamburg Germany
Golda Edwin Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences Pondicherry University Pondicherry India
Nandhivarman Muthu APSCC Pondicherry India
ISSN 2199-7373 World Sustainability Series ISBN 978-3-319-11960-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-11961-8
Mihaela Sima Institute of Geography Romanian Academy Bucharest Romania
ISSN 2199-7381 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-11961-8
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Preface
This book introduces a set of papers presented at the “Green Campus Summit” (GCS-2013), organised by the Association for Promoting Sustainability in Campuses and Communities, under the auspices of the Research and Transfer Centre “Applications of Life Sciences” of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), Pondicherry University (India), Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), and Pondicherry Pollution Control Committee, Government of Puducherry. It took place in Puducherry, India, on 4–5 April 2013. The aims of GCS-2013 were: to provide Universities and Higher Education Institutions all round the world with an opportunity to display and present their works on campus greening initiatives; to foster the ex
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