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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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Contextualizing green building rating systems: Case study of Hong Kong
Zhonghua Gou,Stephen Siu-Yu Lau +1 more
TL;DR: Through a cross comparison, authors are able to explain the differences by the contextualism theory which could be traced back to the fundamental divergence on lifestyles, preferences, urban morphology besides climatic variations.
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A review of building/infrastructure sustainability reporting tools (SRTs)
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a comprehensive review of tools to guide practitioners, property investors, policy makers and developers towards making informed choices in green building/infrastructure projects and compare the benefits and limitations of these tools.
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Urban sustainability assessment: An overview and bibliometric analysis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a bibliometric analysis of about thirty years of research on urban sustainability assessment, which includes 3877 articles published in the Web of Science (WoS).
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Evaluation of net-zero energy residential buildings in the MENA region
Moncef Krarti,Pyeongchan Ihm +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a sequential search technique is utilized to optimize the design of residential buildings in several locations within the MENA region in order to minimize life cycle energy costs using a wide range of energy efficiency measures.
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Certification systems for sustainable neighbourhoods : what do they really certify?
TL;DR: In this article, the content, structure, weighting, and indicators of two established certification systems for sustainable neighbourhoods are analyzed, and the content and structure of two certification systems are compared.
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