Advancing towards an Agenda for Building Decarbonisation in Latecomer Countries
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 1359
Special Issue Editors
Interests: energy efficiency; real estate market; property valuation; urban economics; environmental assessment
Interests: energy efficiency; real estate market; property valuation; urban economics; environmental assessment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The transition towards a decarbonised built environment requires an approximation closely related to the socio-spatial dimension of territories. This linkage is of paramount importance since policy, technology, occupant behaviour, and knowledge diffusion associated with sustainable building strongly correlate with geography, climate, resource availability, tradition, and cultural factors. Through an interdisciplinary approach, this Special Issue aims to open a debate on the challenges and strategies to follow in framing a roadmap in the countries that show insufficient implementation of decarbonised built environments. Such a debate is necessarily transdisciplinary, since factors such as property culture, housing typologies, demographics, construction systems and regulations, financial aspects, and more subtle aspects, such as environmental awareness, are interlinked and show relevant divergences at the regional scale. Therefore, its detailed analysis might provide stakeholders and policymakers with conclusions to address the climatic emergency.
This Special Issue aims to structure the discussion in the following areas:
- Integrated housing and energy policies;
- Funding and management of housing decarbonisation;
- Socio-spatial dimension of decarbonisation transition and housing development;
- Technological approaches;
- Cultural and social transformations.
Prof. Dr. Carlos Marmolejo-Duarte
Dr. Felipe Encinas
Prof. Dr. Carlos Aguirre-Nuñez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- energy efficiency
- energy retrofit
- decarbonised built environment
- energy policy
- environment protection
- housing
- housing policy
- housing development
