A Transition to Sustainable Housing

This open access book explores the environmental, social, and financial challenges of housing provision, and the urgent need for a sustainable housing transition. The authors explore how market failures have impacted the scaling up of sustainable housing and the various policy attempts to address this. Going beyond an environmental focus, the book explores a range of housing-related challenges including social justice and equity issues. Sustainability transitions theory is presented as a framework to help facilitate a sustainable housing transition and a range of contemporary case studies are explored on issues including high performing housing, small housing, shared housing, neighbourhood-scale housing, circular housing, and innovative financing for housing. It is an important new resource that challenges policy makers, planners, housing construction industry stakeholders, and researchers to rethink what housing is, how we design and construct it, and how we can better integrate impacts on households to wider policy development.

Brings together a comprehensive discussion about sustainable housing performance, policy development and outcomes Engages with sustainable housing developments across the world and is relevant to a global audience Accessible to a broad audience including professionals, academics, policy makers and students This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

Autorentext

Trivess Moore is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Property, Construction and Project Management at RMIT University (Australia). His research relates to housing quality, performance, liveability, social impact, and policy. Trivess is a Trustee of the Fuel Poverty Research Network. Andréanne Doyon is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Planning Program in the School of Resource and Environment Management at Simon Fraser University (Canada). Her current research focuses on urban governance and planning for resilient and climate just cities, sustainable housing, and questions of justice in sustainability transitions.

Inhalt
Housing for a sustainable future.- Current housing provision.- A critical juncture.- The sustainable housing challenge.- Providing sustainable housing through sustainability transitions.- Socio-technical dimensions for a sustainable housing transition.- Sustainable housing in practice.- Facilitating the sustainable housing transition.- Prospects for a sustainable housing transition.