TY  - BOOK
AU  - Affolderbach,Julia
ED  - Fonds national de la recherche Luxembourg.
ED  - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
TI  - Green building transitions: regional trajectories of innovation in Europe, Canada and Australia 
T2  - The Urban book series
SN  - 9783319777092
AV  - NA2542.36 
U1  - 690.0286 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Cham, Swizerland
PB  - Springer
KW  - Sustainable architecture
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Construction
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Sustainable buildings
KW  - Urban climatology
KW  - Sustainable Development
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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 offer 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 is a 3-year CORE-INTER research project funded by the National Research Fund Luxembourg (lead) and the University of Cologne, and this volume is co-authored by the project's principal investigators and project coordinator
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