The new governance for low-carbon buildings: mapping, exploring, interrogating

Jeroen Van der Heijden*

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    Abstract

    Acknowledging the limitations of traditional, mandatory governance instruments (building codes, planning legislation) to achieve low-carbon buildings, governments, firms and other organizations have been experimenting with alternatives. This trend has become known as the ‘new governance’. This paper brings together 50 new-governance instruments to understand better this new governance for low-carbon buildings, and what may be expected from it. It finds that new-governance instruments fall short in exactly the same areas as do traditional instruments. It argues for a change in the application of new-governance instruments along three paths to improve their performance.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)575-584
    Number of pages10
    JournalBuilding Research and Information
    Volume44
    Issue number5-6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 17 Aug 2016

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