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A critical review of seven selected neighborhood sustainability assessment tools
Ayyoob Sharifi,Akito Murayama +1 more
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In this paper, the issues of sustainability coverage, pre-requisites, local adaptability, scoring and weighting, participation, reporting, and applicability are discussed using a content analysis, and the results of this study indicate that most of the tools are not doing well regarding the coverage of social, economic, and institutional aspects of sustainability.About:
This article is published in Environmental Impact Assessment Review.The article was published on 2013-01-01. It has received 480 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sustainability & BREEAM.read more
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Trends, Costs, and Benefits of Green Certification of Office Buildings: A Polish Perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the costs and benefits of certified and non-certified office buildings in order to compare the costs in the life cycle and calculating the Life Cycle Cost.
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Analysis of lifecycle CO2 reduction performance for long‐life apartment house
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the CO2 emission reduction rate over the life cycle of long-life apartment houses using high durability and maintenance technologies from general apartment houses (Type I) as reference data.
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Urban Form and Mobility Choices: Informing about Sustainable Travel Alternatives, Carbon Emissions and Energy Use from Transportation in Swedish Neighbourhoods
TL;DR: The lack of mobility choices in many Swedish neighbourhoods and cities designed for automobiles hinders the possibilities to shift towards more sustainable travel alternatives as discussed by the authors, which is a concern for urban designers and designers.
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Innovation for a Sustainable Low Carbon Built Environment
TL;DR: The need to rapidly transition to more sustainable low carbon built environments in Australia and internationally provides the basis for a maturation of the green economy is highlighted in this article, where innovation pathways associated with new technology, urban design, urban governance and household behaviours that are central to this transition are discussed.
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Reviewing Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment Tools through Critical Heritage Studies
TL;DR: In this paper, a critical review of how cultural heritage is addressed in two internationally well-known and used neighborhood assessment tools (NSAs): BREEAM Communities (BREEAM-C) and LEED Neighborhood Design (LEED-ND).
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