Building Governance and Climate Change

Introduction: Building governance and climate change: roles for regulation and related polices H. Visscher, J. Laubscher and E. Chan Part I: Impact of building regulations on the built environment 1. Sustainability and resiliency objectives in performance building regulations B. J. Meacham 2. The realpolitik of building codes: overcoming practical limitations to climate resilience S. Shapiro Part II: Inadequacy of current building regulatory systems 3. Transforming building regulatory systems to address climate change D. A. Eisenberg 4. The impact of regulations on overheating risk in dwellings M. Mulville and S. Stravoravdis Part III: Addressing the performance gap 5. Framework for selecting occupancy-focused energy interventions in buildings A. Karatas, A. Stoiko and C.C. Menassa 6. Improved governance for energy efficiency in housing H. Visscher, F. Meijer, D. Majcen and L. Itard Part IV: Innovative policy solutions 7. Energy efficiency and the policy mix J. Rosenow, T. Fawcett, N. Eyre and V. Oikonomou 8. Alternative building emission-reduction measure: outcomes from the Tokyo Cap-and-Trade Program Y. Nishida, Y. Hua and N. Okamoto 9. Governance strategies to achieve zero-energy buildings in China J. Zhang, N. Zhou, A. Hinge, W. Feng and S. Zhang 10. Multilevel governance for building energy conservation in rural China K. Sha and S. Wu 11. The evolution of green leases: towards inter-organizational environmental governance K. B. Janda, S. Bright, J. Patrick, S. Wilkinson and T. J. Dixon Part V: Historic buildings 12. Governance of heritage buildings: Australian regulatory barriers to adaptive reuse S. Conejos, C. Langston, E.H.W. Chan and M.Y. L. Chew Part VI: Financial incentives 13. Regulatory incentives for green buildings: gross floor area concessions Q. K. Qian, K. Fan and E.H.W. Chan Part VII: Future governance 14. The new governance for low-carbon buildings: mapping, exploring, interrogating J. Van der Heijden 15. Reducing CO2 emissions from residential energy use P. Drummond and P. Ekins Part VIII: Enforcement 16. Comparative review of building commissioning regulation: a quality perspective S.-F. Lord, S. Noye, J. Ure, M.G. Tennant and D. J. Fisk