TY - JOUR
T1 - The new governance for low-carbon buildings
T2 - mapping, exploring, interrogating
AU - Van der Heijden, Jeroen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2016/8/17
Y1 - 2016/8/17
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - building performance
KW - building regulations
KW - climate change
KW - environmental performance
KW - governance
KW - low-carbon buildings
KW - regulatory systems
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84962428677&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09613218.2016.1159394
DO - 10.1080/09613218.2016.1159394
M3 - Article
SN - 0961-3218
VL - 44
SP - 575
EP - 584
JO - Building Research and Information
JF - Building Research and Information
IS - 5-6
ER -