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Exploring the coverage of environmental-dimension indicators in existing campus sustainability appraisal tools
- Source :
- Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, Vol 8, Iss, Pp 100057-(2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- Despite the plethora of comprehensive review of campus sustainability assessment tools, reporting, and indicators in the extant literature, studies are absent specifically on campus-wide and spatial-based indicators in existing tools. Although, several academic campuses across the globe are located on a vast area of land with multiple activities and operations associated with serious ecological consequences. This paper explores the environmental-dimension indicators with spatial and campus-wide attributes in 13 existing campus sustainability appraisal tools via coverage evaluation and the SMART approach. The findings reveal a severe absence of comprehensive coverage of spatial-based indicators and the lack of the integration of a GIS and or related spatial software in their appraisal process. The article demonstrates how integrating GIS and or other related spatial techniques and software into environmental dimension indicators with campus-wide and spatial attributes could be carried out to remedy the challenges of absence, inadequate of or restrained access to basic information for campus sustainability appraisal project in developing world.
- Subjects :
- lcsh:GE1-350
Globe
Developing country
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
GIS
Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)
SMART Approach
medicine.anatomical_structure
Campus sustainability assessment tools
Extant taxon
Sustainability appraisal
Sustainability
medicine
Indicators
Business
Higher educational institutions
Dimension (data warehouse)
Environmental planning
lcsh:Environmental sciences
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Appraisal process
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 26659727
- Volume :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....dbbc8e54331f7a6a20dd1feee04938dc