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

Building Research and Information

Volumn 44, Issue 5-6, 2016, Pages 575-584

  Van der Heijden, Jeroen ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

building performance; building regulations; climate change; environmental performance; governance; low carbon buildings; regulatory systems

Indexed keywords

BUILDING CODES; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

BUILDING PERFORMANCE; BUILDING REGULATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; GOVERNANCE; LOW-CARBON BUILDINGS; REGULATORY SYSTEMS;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 84962428677     PISSN: 09613218     EISSN: 14664321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09613218.2016.1159394     Document Type: Article

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