Jeroen van der Heijden

Innovations in Urban Climate Governance

Voluntary Programs for Low-Carbon Buildings and Cities

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Produktbeschreibung

Analyses voluntary programs for sustainable buildings and cities, a prominent strategy to mitigate climate change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 168mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781108415361
• ISBN-10: 1108415369
• Artikelnr.: 47974683

Autorenporträt

Jeroen van der Heijden is an associate professor of urban climate governance at the Australian National University. He aims to improve local, national and international outcomes of urban governance on some of the most pressing challenges of our time: climate change and urbanisation.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Why focus on voluntary programmes for sustainable buildings and cities?
2. The sustainable building challenge: contextualising the problem
3. A world of voluntary programs: prevailing and advanced theoretical perspectives
4. Bridging supply and demand
5. Generating and sharing knowledge
6. Providing funds
7. Separating the wheat from the chaff: a crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis (csQCA)
8. Voluntary programs for sustainable cities elsewhere: certification and classification in India, Malaysia, and Singapore
9. Beyond the leadership delusion: what role for voluntary programs in decarbonising buildings and cities?
Appendix A. Country snapshots
Appendix B. Voluntary program snapshots
Appendix C. Application of QCA in this book and an additional fsQCA
Appendix D. Interviews
References
Index.