Book description
Brings together leading thinking on issues of new professional practice and on the future of a sustainable built environment
This book focuses on both construction and development issues, and examines how we can transition to a sustainable future by the year 2050—bringing together leading research and practice at building, neighbourhood, and city levels. It deftly analyses how emerging socio-economic, technological, and environmental trends will influence the built environment of the future. The book covers a broad spectrum of interests across the scales of buildings, communities and cities, including how professional practice will need to adapt to these trends. The broader context is provided by an analysis of emergent business models and the changing requirements for expert advice from clients.
Sustainable Futures in the Built Environment to 2050: A Foresight Approach to Construction and Development features chapters covering: data and trends, including historical data and UK and international case studies; policies and practice related to the field; current state of scientific understanding; key challenges; key technological advances (including disruptive and systemic technological innovations); change issues and critical uncertainties; and future visions. It provides:
- A strong conceptual framework based on a ‘Foresight' approach
- Discussion of the key data and trends that underpin each chapter
- Coverage of both construction and property development
- Specially commissioned chapters by academics and practitioners
- A synthesis of the main findings in the book and key insights for the future to 2050
Sustainable Futures in the Built Environment to 2050: A Foresight Approach to Construction and Development is an important book for postgraduate students and researchers, construction, real estate and property development specialists, engineers, planners, architects, foresight and futures studies specialists, and anyone involved in sustainable buildings.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Editorial Board
- List of Contributors
- Note on Contributors
- Foreword by Sir Terry Farrell
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Book Endorsements
- 1 Introduction
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Part 1: Sustainability and the Built Environment
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2 Climate Change, Resilience and the Built Environment
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Hot in the city: urbanisation and changing urban climates
- 2.3 Policies and guidelines in the UK relating to climate change and the built environment
- 2.4 Climate adaptation options: modelling tomorrow’s buildings today
- 2.5 New approaches: combining city growth, weather and building energy models
- 2.6 Prospects and challenges for constructing resilient built environments
- 2.7 Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- 3 Sustainability in Real Estate Markets
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4 From the ‘Sustainable Community’ to Prosperous People and Places
- 4.1 Introduction: The ‘sustainable community’ in crisis
- 4.2 Sustainable communities: an ambiguous goal in an unsustainable system
- 4.3 Local perspectives on sustainable and prosperous communities
- 4.4 Connecting the future and the present
- 4.5 Building prosperity: re‐thinking value and innovation in the built environment
- 4.6 Conclusion
- References
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5 Smart and Sustainable?
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Why is thinking about cities important?
- 5.3 The evolution and growth of the future cities discourse: from garden cities to smart cities
- 5.4 Being ‘smart and sustainable’: what does it mean for a city?
- 5.5 Driving forces for smart and sustainable cities
- 5.6 Smart and sustainable cities in practice
- 5.7 What is the future for ‘future cities’?
- 5.8 Conclusions: opportunities and challenges to 2050
- References
- 6 Sustainable Infrastructure
- 7 Sustainable Design of the Built Environment
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2 Climate Change, Resilience and the Built Environment
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Part 2: Changing Professional Practice
- 8 Planning for Sustainability
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9 Sustainable Construction
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Our common future
- 9.3 Systems thinking for sustainability
- 9.4 Meanwhile back in the UK construction sector
- 9.5 Modernisation of the construction sector
- 9.6 Sustainable construction as a ‘wicked’ problem
- 9.7 Strategy for sustainable construction
- 9.8 The battle lines for sustainability
- 9.9 Conclusions: towards 2050 and beyond
- References
- 10 Sustainable Procurement
- 11 Social Media in the Built Environment
- Part 3: Provocations about the Future
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Part 4: Transformative Technologies and Innovation
- 14 Energy Interactions
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15 Sustained Innovation Uptake in Construction
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 Background
- 15.3 Central themes of innovation
- 15.4 Where to look at the problem from
- 15.5 Sustained innovation uptake through networks
- 15.6 Incentives for the supply network
- 15.7 Market networks
- 15.8 Summary: seeing both the wood and the trees
- 15.9 Concluding thoughts
- References
- 16 Humanising the Digital
- Part 5: Conclusions and Common Themes
- Index
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: Sustainable Futures in the Built Environment to 2050
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2018
- Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
- ISBN: 9781119063810
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