What Role Do Real Estate Markets Play in the Decarbonization of Building Sector?
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Building".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2023) | Viewed by 3717
Special Issue Editors
Interests: multi-criteria decision and hedonic price models; urban regeneration; risk assessment
Interests: economic feasibility; public investment and works; real estate and construction costs
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainability is dedicating a Special Issue to the role that real estate markets play in the decarbonization of the building sector.
The recent pandemic experience requires a profound reflection on the ecological, digital, social, and economic transitions that are taking place globally. Considering that energy consumption in the real estate industry is one of the greatest contributors of all greenhouse gas emissions, it is mandatory to focus on the decarbonization process in the building sector, as it will soon no longer be an option. Nations, states, and cities work towards sustainability targets to mitigate climate change by adopting new green regulation policies on an urban scale, both on new development processes and on retrofitting programs of the existing built heritage. The decarbonization process has an impact on the entire value chain of the building sector. Public and private interventions take place at all levels of the real estate sector, starting from the planning, design, and valuation process to construction, life-cycle management, upgrading, and demolition. Building construction materials produce high levels of carbon at all stages of their production and use, from extraction to transportation and assembly. However, building management operations such as cooling and heating are the most energy-consuming phases. All these stages must be monitored and regulated with a view to decarbonization, from the perspective of both policymakers and private investors. Public administration, developers, owners, and managing companies are expected to manage sustainability issues and to make responsible and interoperable choices that will have long-term impacts on the socio-economic wealth, competitiveness, and resilience of cities. The main question now is how real estate markets, in their different declinations and forms, have reacted to sustainability policies, and how they are currently facing the demands of global climate change.
This Special Issue intends to shed light on how real estate markets have responded and are currently reacting to the decarbonization process at all stages of construction, and on how new technologies, strategies, and methodologies can be applied to increase the sustainability of new buildings through their life cycles.
This Special Issue offers a new opportunity to discuss this main topic in a critical and constructive way. We invite researchers interested in this crucial matter to submit their studies to this Special Issue, including empirical and theoretical investigations and extensive literature-oriented discussions.
Dr. Rubina Canesi
Dr. Giuliano Marella
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable real estate
- sustainable urban development
- environmental and social criteria in real estate
- urban property
- green policies and urban properties
- ecological footprint and transition decarbonization
- green buildings
