Abstract The study is part of humanity's current concerns tempering climate change for sustainable development, in the context where construction sector responsible a significant percentage greenhouse gas emissions. In present work, through rigorous documentation, authors synthesize several existing green and building certification systems. Extending from buildings to neighbourhoods, university...

Sexual assault is a serious concern on college and university campuses across the United States. However, the institutional factors that may make campuses more or less prone to rape are poorly understood. This study utilizes routine activities theory (RAT) to examine campus-related factors across 524 four-year campuses in the United States to determine what features of a campus community are mo...

OBJECTIVE To develop, evaluate, and validate 2 nutrition environment assessment tools (surveys), for specific use in combating overweight on college/university campuses. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS Invitations to complete surveys were e-mailed to food service and health center directors at 47 universities, Winter 2008. Overall response rate was 48%. Responses from the 39 individuals who complete...

In recent years, university educators have moved from singular reliance upon the didactic lecture hall format to a composite system that uses a full array of course development, delivery, maintenance and management tools. This paper briefly introduces such as system by discussing the concept of a “smart and flexible campus education”. The system offers an integrated series of educational tools ...