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Evaluation of the Built Environment for Sustainability
Sustainability in the built environment is a major issue facing policy-makers, planners, developers and designers in the UK, Europe and worldwide.The measuring of buildings and cities for sustainability becomes increasingly important as pressure for green, sustainable development translates into policy and legislation.The problems of such measurement and evaluation are presented by the authors in contributions which move from the general to the particular, e.g. from a general framework for an environmentally sustainable form of urban development to a specific input-output model application to environmental problems.The book is divided into three parts: the first covers city models and sustainable systems - research programmes, environmental policies, green corporations and collaborative strategies to make urban development more sustainable; part two discusses the problems of evaluating the built environment in planning and construction, covering economic and environmental methods and construction, development and regeneration processes; part three illustrates a number of applications using different approaches and techniques and referring to a range of environmental aspects of the natural and built environment, from maintaining historic buildings to transport management and air pollution monitoring.
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An Introduction to Environment, Society and Sustainability
This timely and innovative book delves into the complex interplay of human activities and natural limits in generating today’s sustainability challenges.By contrasting the pressures of growing populations with ecological footprints associated with consumption, the volume navigates the contested terrain where human societies generate environmental impacts. Adorned with illustrative figures, examples and case studies throughout, this book presents insightful analysis of ecological, economic, technological, and social justice responses to the challenges faced by human civilization, including land degradation, climate change, pollution, and overexploitation of natural resources.Many of these issues are wicked problems, characterized by incomplete information, multiple stakeholders, and contested approaches to addressing them.In simple terms, sustainability issues are an interplay between population growth and rising consumption, which are placing impossible demands on finite resources.Potential solutions to the crisis are split between green growth approaches that emphasize technology and institutional capacity to guide economic growth in more sustainable ways, and degrowth approaches that call for a fundamental rethinking of the way we structure society and generate value.This book emerged from a student seminar where undergraduate and graduate students highlighted sustainability topics of concern, helped consider their framing, and then assisted with co-writing several of the chapters.The volume encourages readers to consider structural questions that underpin sustainability dilemmas, and begins with four theoretical frameworks for understanding sustainability issues: ideas from the natural sciences, the population/consumption debate, economic frameworks, and ethical approaches.It then uses a systems approach to apply these theoretical ideas to complex global systems such as the atmosphere, oceans, and agriculture. This volume will be of pivotal interest to students, scholars and academics in the fields of environmental studies, environment and society, human geography and environmental geography, as well as those with an interest in these areas more generally.
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The Global Business Environment : Sustainability in the Balance
This text challenges students to think critically about global issues that affect the business environment and provides them with a wealth of pedagogical features that help cement learning.Its coverage includes the economic, political, social, legal, cultural, technological and financial environments. The book is truly global in coverage, with case studies and examples from all over the world, including Afghanistan, China, Sweden and Thailand.It also has a strong focus on ethics, responsibilities and sustainability and what this means for business organizations.Janet Morrison's writing style makes difficult concepts easy to understand and its clarity makes it suitable for students with English as a second language. New to this edition:- The theme of uncertainty in global contexts, examining how best to assess and confront the challenges of uncertainties and risks in the differing dimensions of the business environment - A chapter on the worldwide pandemic and the global business environment- Increased coverage of FDI, industrial policy and global communication- New coverage relating to race relations and decolonising the curriculum- 10 new cases, making a total of 52 cases, with all other cases fully updated- A brand new decision-making feature linked to some of the cases studies
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Connecting the Dots : Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability
Understand how Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) and Sustainability are interconnected and take meaningful action Global in scope, Connecting the Dots provides readers with a concise overview of how EHS and Sustainability intersect and offers immediately actionable activities to bring to their organizations in the context of worker safety, health, and wellbeing and environmental management, connecting the dots between the subject and the professional's role.Written with standalone chapters to allow readers to apply relevant topics in situ or in study as needed, each chapter follows a standard format with integrated case studies, examples, and implementation advice.Interviews with leaders in the field and real-world examples of success are included throughout the text to elucidate key concepts.This book is scalable to the size and nature of a company's operations, from a small, medium-sized enterprise to a global multinational company, it is applicable to all professionals in the field from the C-Suite to the front-line worker.The impact pathways in the Value: Creation, Assessment, Valuation and Impact Pathways chapter will be of interest to the finance department, the supply chain in the Stakeholder and Stakeholder mapping chapter will interest the procurement professional, and the sustainability strategy and decision-making roadmap chapter could be a focus for the enterprise risk team and applicable to procurement, as well as internal audit, corporate communications, investor relations and others.Written by two veteran industry EHS and sustainability leaders, coverage includes: Commonalities and differences in the international taxonomy within the EHS and sustainability disciplines, helping bridge reader understanding and communication across their company's stakeholder groupsIntegrated business and risk management models related to associated frameworks, standards, assessments, themes, issues, impacts, and materialityDiscipline processes to operationalize concepts, and the better approach of a Future Fit, Sustainability and Business excellence mindset instead of a compliance mindsetImplementation and change management, highlighting important cultural and business considerations Connecting the Dots is an essential guidance and reference resource for all professional readers, no matter where they sit in the value chain or industry sector.The text also serves as an excellent aid for advanced courses on topics such as sustainability and safety, environmental standards, and advanced safety, health and wellbeing management.
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Green Development : Environment and Sustainability in a Developing World
The concept of sustainability lies at the core of the challenge of environment and development, and the way governments, business and environmental groups respond to it.Green Development provides a clear and coherent analysis of sustainable development in both theory and practice.Green Development explores the origins and evolution of mainstream thinking about sustainable development and offers a critique of the ideas behind them.It draws a link between theory and practice by discussing the nature of the environmental degradation and the impacts of development.It argues that, ultimately, ‘green’ development has to be about political economy, about the distribution of power, and not about environmental quality.Its focus is strongly on the developing world. The fourth edition retains the broad structure of previous editions, but has been updated to reflect advances in ideas and changes in international policy.Greater attention has been given to the political ecology of development, market-based and neoliberal environmentalism, and degrowth.This fully revised edition discusses: the origins of thinking about sustainability and sustainable development, and its evolution to the present day; the ideas that dominate mainstream sustainable development (including natural capital, the green economy, market environmentalism and ecological modernisation); critiques of mainstream ideas and of neoliberal framings of sustainability, and alternative ideas about sustainability that challenge ‘business as usual’ thinking, such as arguments about limits to growth and calls for degrowth; the dilemmas of sustainability in the context of forests, desertification, food and farming, biodiversity conservation and dam construction; the challenge of policy choices about sustainability, particularly between reformist and radical responses to the contemporary global dilemmas. Green Development offers clear insights into the challenges of environmental sustainability, and social and economic development.It is unique in offering a synthesis of theoretical ideas on sustainability and in its coverage of the extensive literature on environment and development around the world.The book has proved its value to generations of students as an authoritative, thought-provoking and readable guide to the field of sustainable development.
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The Environment in Global Sustainability Governance : Perceptions, Actors, Innovations
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. With Agenda 2030, the UN adopted wide-ranging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that integrate development and environmental agendas.This book focuses on the political tensions between the environmental objectives and socio-economic aspects of sustainable development.The collection provides an introduction to interlinkages, synergies and trade-offs between the ‘green’ and other goals, such as gender equality and economic growth.It also considers related goals on cities and partnerships as crucial for implementing environmentally sound sustainability.Identifying governance failures and responsibilities, it advocates for a shift towards cooperative economics and politics for the common good.
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Regreening the Built Environment : Nature, Green Space, and Sustainability
Now in its second volume, Regreening the Built Environment provides an overview of physical and social environmental challenges that the planet is facing and presents solutions that restore ecological processes, reclaim open space, foster social equity, and facilitate a green economy. Healing the planet requires a combination of strategies networked across multiple scales of development, including buildings, sites, communities, and regions.Case studies from a range of locations in the United States, Denmark, Vietnam, Germany, South Korea, Switzerland, France, and the United Kingdom, among others, demonstrate how existing gray infrastructure can be retrofitted with green infrastructure and low-impact development techniques.From this, the author shows how a building can be designed that creates greenspace or generates energy; likewise, a roadway can be a parkway, an alley can be a wildlife corridor, and a parking surface can be a garden.This new edition also includes case studies that have successfully reconnected communities that were fragmented by unjust planning practices and irresponsible patterns of development, resilient design solutions in response to natural disasters, passive design strategies that can make interior spaces more efficient and healthier, and expanded discussions on capturing carbon, renewable energy, agriculture, waste, public transit, and adaptive reuse, including innovative ideas on how to reimagine the shopping mall in the era of e-commerce. The strategies presented in this book will stimulate discussions within the design profession and will be of great interest to students and practitioners of environmental studies, architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design.
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