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Green building transitions : regional trajectories of innovation in Europe, Canada and Australia / Julia Affolderbach, Christian Schulz.

This volume analyzes sustainability-related innovations in the building sector and discusses how regional contexts articulate transition trajectories toward green building. It presents 'biographies' of drivers and processes of green building innovation in four case studies: Brisbane (AUS),...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Affolderbach, Julia (Author)
Corporate Authors: Fonds national de la recherche Luxembourg, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Swizerland : Springer, [2018]
Series:Urban book series.
Subjects:
Sustainable architecture > Case studies.
Sustainable architecture > Technological innovations.
Climatic changes.
Sustainable architecture.
Sustainable buildings.
Urban climatology.
Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Framing urban green building
  • Green building as urban climate change strategy
  • Green building as urban sustainability transitions
  • Urban sustainability and the governance of greening
  • Methodology
  • Practices and contexts
  • Freiburg : the emblematic green city
  • Vancover : leading green building transitions?
  • Brisbane : a disrupted green building trajectory
  • Luxembourg : a policy-led appraoch caught between green growth and affordable housing
  • Trajectories of greening
  • Cities as seedbeds for sustainability innovations
  • Leading the green transition?
  • Conclusion.

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