The sustainable campus indicators in the US and in
the European Union: a new form of indicators
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Les indicateurs du campus durable aux USA et dans l’Union Européenne: une nouvelle forme d’indicateurs de communauté
The sustainable campus indicators in the US and in the European Union: a new form of indicators community

Author(s): Eric OLSZAK
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Publishing Inc. European Readings & Prodifmultimedia/Editura Napoca Star
Keywords: Indicators; Communities; Well-being; Campus; Sustainable development

Summary/Abstract: The middle of the nineties saw opening many initiatives on the North American university campusesand later in the European Union aiming at evaluating their performances compared with SustainableDevelopment. An attentive examination of the methods used at the same time as the choice of their variablesleads us to establish a connection between such initiatives and the use of community indicators. This paper willendeavour to clarify the two approaches while emphasizing the similarities and oppositions between indicatorsof sustainable campus and community indicators.

  • Issue Year: 6/2012
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 167-174
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: French