Van der Heijden, J (2016) The new governance for low-carbon buildings: Mapping, exploring, interrogating. Building Research & Information, 44(5-6), pp. 575-584. ISSN 0961-3218
Abstract
Acknowledging the limitations of traditional, mandatory governance instruments (building codes, planning legislation) to achieve low-carbon buildings, governments, firms and other organizations have been experimenting with alternatives. This trend has become known as the new governance'. This paper brings together 50 new-governance instruments to understand better this new governance for low-carbon buildings, and what may be expected from it. It finds that new-governance instruments fall short in exactly the same areas as do traditional instruments. It argues for a change in the application of new-governance instruments along three paths to improve their performance.; Acknowledging the limitations of traditional, mandatory governance instruments (building codes, planning legislation) to achieve low-carbon buildings, governments, firms and other organizations have been experimenting with alternatives. This trend has become known as the 'new governance'. This paper brings together 50 new-governance instruments to understand better this new governance for low-carbon buildings, and what may be expected from it. It finds that new-governance instruments fall short in exactly the same areas as do traditional instruments. It argues for a change in the application of new-governance instruments along three paths to improve their performance.;Acknowledging the limitations of traditional, mandatory governance instruments (building codes, planning legislation) to achieve low-carbon buildings, governments, firms and other organizations have been experimenting with alternatives. This trend has become known as the 'new governance'. This paper brings together 50 new-governance instruments to understand better this new governance for low-carbon buildings, and what may be expected from it. It finds that new-governance instruments fall short in exactly the same areas as do traditional instruments. It argues for a change in the application of new-governance instruments along three paths to improve their performance.;
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | building performance; low-carbon buildings; regulatory systems; environmental performance; climate change; building regulations; governance; construction & building technology; LEED; voluntary environmental-programs; energy efficiency; regulation; green buildings; carbon |
| Index terms: | green building, regulation, program, mapping, climate change, planning legislation, building code, governance, building technology, regulatory system, building regulation, environmental performance, energy efficiency, low-carbon building, building performance |
| Subjects: | regulatory law, political science, quality assurance, sustainability assessment, design practice, spatial and geospatial analysis, software systems, planning law, sustainability and energy, engineering systems, climate science, business |
| Topics: | Design Practice, Legal Issues, Digital Applications, Quality Management, Research Practice, Engineering Principles, Sustainability, Governance |
| Descriptive scope: | 2 PC |
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