Building Governance and Climate Change: Regulation and Related Policies

ISBN-13: 9780367519391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 242 str.

Richard Lorch; Jacques Laubscher; Edwin Hon Chan

Opis

This book investigates how building regulatory systems are addressing the current and future effects of climate change, and how these systems can be improved. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Building Research & Information journal.

Spis treści

Introduction: Building governance and climate change: roles for regulation and related polices  Part I: Impact of building regulations on the built environment  1. Sustainability and resiliency objectives in performance building regulations  2. The realpolitik of building codes: overcoming practical limitations to climate resilience  Part II: Inadequacy of current building regulatory systems  3. Transforming building regulatory systems to address climate change  4. The impact of regulations on overheating risk in dwellings  Part III: Addressing the performance gap  5. Framework for selecting occupancy-focused energy interventions in buildings  6. Improved governance for energy efficiency in housing  Part IV: Innovative policy solutions 7. Energy efficiency and the policy mix  8. Alternative building emission-reduction measure: outcomes from the Tokyo Cap-and-Trade Program  9. Governance strategies to achieve zero-energy buildings in China  10. Multilevel governance for building energy conservation in rural China  11. The evolution of green leases: towards inter-organizational environmental governance  Part V: Historic buildings  12. Governance of heritage buildings: Australian regulatory barriers to adaptive reuse  Part VI: Financial incentives  13. Regulatory incentives for green buildings: gross floor area concessions  Part VII: Future governance  14. The new governance for low-carbon buildings: mapping, exploring, interrogating  15. Reducing CO2 emissions from residential energy use  Part VIII: Enforcement  16. Comparative review of building commissioning regulation: a quality perspective