Future challenges in evaluating and managing sustainable development in the built environment / edited by Peter S. Brandon, Patrizia Lombardi, Geoffrey Q. Shen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brandon, P. S. (Peter S.), editor.

Lombardi, Patrizia, editor.

Shen, Geoffrey Q., editor.

Series:

THEi Wiley ebooks.

THEi Wiley ebooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, England : Wiley Blackwell, 2017.

System Details:

Access using campus network via VPN at home (THEi Users Only).

Summary:

Future Challenges in Sustainable Development within the Built Environment stimulates and reinterprets the demands of Responsible and Sustainable Development in the Built Environment for future action and development. It examines the methods of evaluation, the use of technology, the creation of new models and the role of human factors for examining and developing the subject over the next twenty years.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Initiative and Obsolescence in Sustainable Development

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Section 1: World views and values

1.3 Section 2: Design and evaluation tools and technology

1.4 Section 3: Engaging with practice, stakeholders and management

1.5 Initiative and obsolescence

1.6 Final statement

References

Section 1 World Views and Values

Chapter 2 Cities of Tomorrow: Five Crucibles of Change

2.1 Exordium

2.2 Disquisition

2.3 Propositum

Chapter 3 Going Beyond Sustainability: Changing Views, Changing Ways

3.1 Introduction

3.2 What lies beyond sustainability?

3.3 Changing views: Transforming story, transforming thought

3.4 Changing self: Transforming knowledge into wisdom

3.5 Changing ways: Transforming practice

3.6 Conclusions

Chapter 4 Transition Towards a Post Carbon City - Does Resilience Matter?

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Cities and climate change

4.3 Approaches to sustainable development

4.4 Concluding remarks

Chapter 5 Sustainable Urban Development - Where Are You Now?

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Establishing the BEQUEST network

5.3 Building the BEQUEST team

5.4 The legacy of BEQUEST

5.5 Defining SUD

5.6 The diffusion of SUD

5.7 The framing of and tools for SUD

5.8 Expansion/dilution of SUD

5.9 Elaborating, not extending, SUD

5.10 Conclusions

Section 2 Design and Evaluation Tools and Technology

Chapter 6 Crowdsourcing Public Participation in Sustainable Built Environment Development: The Democratisation of Expertise

6.1 Introduction

6.2 The context of sustainable built environment development.

6.3 Background to technology‐enabled public participation

6.4 The potential of virtual reality

6.5 Using virtual reality as a crowdsourcing approach to public participation in urban planning

6.6 Summary

Chapter 7 2050 - The Invisible Future

7.1 The future

7.2 What future?

7.3 The present and the future

7.4 Future city in 2050

7.5 Invisible BIM 2050

7.6 Constraints to the vision

Chapter 8 The Role of Carbon in Sustainable Development

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Operational and embodied carbon in construction

8.3 Estimating OC and EC

8.4 Shifting of focus

8.5 Drivers and barriers in managing carbon emissions in construction

8.6 Need for carbon estimating in construction

8.7 Future trends

8.8 Conclusions

Chapter 9 Supporting Risk Assessment in Building Resilient Cities

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Theoretical framework for capturing the degree of vulnerability of a place

9.3 Local risk assessment process

9.4 Multi-agency collaboration and community engagement

9.5 Technology platforms for interactive risk assessment

9.6 Conclusion

Chapter 10 Towards an Intelligent Digital Ecosystem - Sustainable Data‐driven Design Futures

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Changing role of 'design' for sustainable futures

10.3 Emerging concepts, challenges and trends

10.4 The rise of big data

10.5 From green to smart: New focus/new metrics

10.6 Predicted versus actual performance

10.7 Towards a digital ecosystem - Scenarios for implementation

10.8 Conclusions: Future value propositions

Chapter 11 Smart Cities Case Study - The Nottingham Experience

11.1 Background

11.2 Remourban

11.3 Nottingham case study

11.4 Integrated infrastructures

11.5 Discussion on added value

References.

Section 3 Engaging with Practice, Stakeholders and Management

Chapter 12 Value-oriented Stakeholder Engagement in Sustainable Development: A Conceptual Framework

12.1 Stakeholder engagement in sustainable development

12.2 Approaches to stakeholder engagement

12.3 Value-oriented approach of stakeholder engagement in sustainable development

12.4 Process of the value-oriented stakeholder engagement approach

12.5 Using SNA to analyse stakeholder interrelationships

12.6 The conceptual framework and its potential applications

12.7 Conclusions

Chapter 13 Sustainability in Practice in the United Kingdom - A Reflective Analysis

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Method

13.3 Reflective analysis

13.4 Property Tectonics

13.5 Economics, investment and finance

13.6 National grid pressures

13.7 Waste recycling

13.8 Lifespan software

13.9 Energy management in social housing

13.10 Energy Company Obligation

13.11 Compliance and warranties

13.12 Conclusion

Chapter 14 Understanding Value Generation in Complex Urban Regeneration Projects

14.1 The context: Social housing projects in Brazil

14.2 Management of urban regeneration projects

14.3 Value generation

14.4 Research method

14.5 Main results

14.6 Discussion and conclusions

Chapter 15 Integrating Sustainable Urban Development

15.1 Problem realisation

15.2 Towards a solution

15.3 Globalisation and virtualisation

15.4 The city and its hinterland

15.5 Towards better governance structures

15.6 Mind the skills gap

Further reading

Chapter 16 Sustainability - The Role of Construction Contracts

16.1 Introduction

16.2 The JCT consultation

16.3 Specification or contract conditions

16.4 JCT standard form contracts and sustainability.

16.5 The framework objectives

16.6 The provider's supply chain

16.7 Sustainable development and environmental considerations

16.8 Aspirational or legally binding provisions

16.9 The future

16.10 Conclusion

Chapter 17 Transforming Communication and Decision‐making Practices for Sustainable Renewal of Urban Transport Infrastructure

17.1 Introduction

17.2 Aim, objectives and methods of study

17.3 Sustainable renewal of urban transport infrastructure

17.4 Analysis of key issues in urban transport renewal

17.5 Findings and discussion

17.6 Conclusion

Chapter 18 Rethinking the Role of Time in Sustainable Urban Development

18.1 Introduction

18.2 Why time?

18.3 Planning with time

18.4 Time as a linking factor. Hermann Dooyeweerd's philosophy of the law idea

18.5 The grave of time. Why current planning approaches fail

18.6 Summary

18.7 A future challenge

Chapter 19 Suggestions for Future Sustainability: Philosophical and Practical

19.1 Sustainability

19.2 Dooyeweerd's philosophy

19.3 The longer view

19.4 The importance of attitudes and beliefs to sustainability

19.5 Conclusion

Index

EULA.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 26, 2017).

ISBN:

9781119190721

111919072X

9781119190738

1119190738

9781119190691

111919069X

OCLC:

983737801