Insights and Perceptions of Sustainable Design and Construction

Beddoes, David W.; Booth, Colin A.

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“…A typical example is the development of the currently popular best-of-class building benchmarking arrangements (see Section 5). By requiring certain construction materials or certain construction processes, such arrangements limit market access for some players in the sector, whilst giving others a competitive advantage (Beddoes & Booth, 2012).…”

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Regulatory failures, split-incentives, conflicting interests and a vicious circle of blame: the New Environmental Governance to the rescue?

Heijden

2014

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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This article addresses a current trend of new environmental governance (NEG). It examines whether NEG is able to overcome a series of complex regulatory barriers and market shortfalls that stand in the way of carbon emissions reductions in the building sector. Building on an evaluation of 20 NEG arrangements from Australia and the Netherlands, it discusses the limits of the effective implementation and use of NEG in this sector. The article concludes by suggesting three strategies to improve the performance of NEG arrangements.

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Regulatory failures, split-incentives, conflicting interests and a vicious circle of blame: the New Environmental Governance to the rescue?

Heijden

2014

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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“…Finally, and most strikingly, the majority of the experiments studied (87%, n=27) aimed to evidence something obvious: that buildings with high levels of environmental performance are not more costly, and are sometimes cheaper to build, operate, maintain and use than traditional buildings with low levels of environmental performance. Yet, these opportunities and possibilities have been known for some decades now and are very well documented (e.g, Beddoes & Booth, 2012;Register, 1987). Why then repeat the same experiment, albeit in different forms, over and over and over again?…”

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Experimentation in policy design: insights from the building sector

Heijden

2013

Policy Sci

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The current article questions how experimentation in policy-design plays out in practice. In particular, it is interested in understanding how the content and process of policy-design experiments affect their outcomes. The article does so by building on an original study into 31 real-world examples of experimentation in policy-design in the building sector in Australia, the Netherlands and the United States. All examples aim to improve the environmental sustainability of the building sector. The article finds that these 31 examples have attracted moderate to substantial numbers of participants (policy outcome HO.i), but have not achieved substantial numbers of buildings built or retrofitted with high levels of sustainability (policy outcome HO.ii). By carefully unpacking these policy-designs into a number of key characteristics it finds that this mismatch between the two outcomes may partly be explained by flawed policy-design processes. The article concludes with the main lessons learnt, and provides some suggestions on how to improve experimentation in policy-design.

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Contemporary Landscapes and Buildings of Motorway Service Areas

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2016

Sustainable Surface Water Management

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Insights and Perceptions of Sustainable Design and Construction

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Regulatory failures, split-incentives, conflicting interests and a vicious circle of blame: the New Environmental Governance to the rescue?

Regulatory failures, split-incentives, conflicting interests and a vicious circle of blame: the New Environmental Governance to the rescue?

Experimentation in policy design: insights from the building sector

Contemporary Landscapes and Buildings of Motorway Service Areas

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