Overview
- Investigates regional drivers and variations in sustainability transitions through international case studies in four major cities and their surrounding regions
- Emphasizes the role of sustainability policies, sustainable innovations, and the actor-network nexus in the urban context
- Useful for researchers and students in the fields of urban sustainability, climate change mitigation, and green building
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Framing Urban Green Building
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Trajectories of Greening
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Back Matter
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About this book
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), Freiburg (GER), Luxembourg (LU), and Vancouver (CA). Two of them are relatively well known for their initiatives to mitigate climate change – particularly in the building sector, whereas the other two have only recently become more active in promoting green building. The volume places emphasis on development paths, learning processes, and innovations. The focus of the case studies is not restricted to purely technological aspects but also integrates regulatory, procedural, institutional, and other processes and routines and their influence on the variations of the building sector.
The diversity of the selected case studies offers the reader the opportunity to gain a thorough understanding of how sustainability developments have unfolded in different city regions. Case study-specific catalogues of transition paths provide insights to inform policy debates and planning processes. The catalogues identify crucial innovations (technological, regulatory, etc.) and explain the factors and circumstances that have led to their success and broader acceptance in Freiburg, Vancouver, Luxembourg, and Brisbane. With the help of a number of micro case studies within each of the four city regions, the case studies also offer ground for comparison and identification of differences.
The book represents the outcome of the GreenRegio project, which stands for ‘Green building in regional strategies for sustainability: multi-actor governance and innovative building technologies in Europe, Australia, and Canada.’ GreenRegio was a 3-year CORE-INTER research project funded by the National Research Fund Luxembourg (FNR) and the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Chapters 2, 3,10 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Boris Braun is University professor for Human and Economic Geography at the University of Cologne.
Dr. Christian Schulz holds a professorship in European Sustainable Spatial Development and Analysis at the University of Luxembourg.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Green Building Transitions
Book Subtitle: Regional Trajectories of Innovation in Europe, Canada and Australia
Authors: Julia Affolderbach, Christian Schulz
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77709-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77708-5Published: 26 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08518-6Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77709-2Published: 15 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 236
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Sustainable Development