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Buildings are the nation's greatest energy consumers. Forty percent of all our energyis used for heating, cooling, lighting, and powering machines and devices in buildings. And despitedecades of investment in green construction technologies, residential and commercial buildingsremain stubbornly energy inefficient. This book looks beyond the technological and material aspectsof green construction to examine the cultural, social, and organizational shifts that sustainablebuilding requires, examining the fundamental challenge to centuries-long traditions in design andconstruction that green building represents.
The contributors consider the changesassociated with green building through a sociological and organizational lens. They discuss shiftsin professional expertise created by new social concerns about green building, including evolvingboundaries of professional jurisdictions; changing industry strategies and structures, including theroles of ownership, supply firms, and market niches; new operational, organizational, and culturalarrangements, including the mainstreaming of environmental concerns; narratives and frames thatinfluence the perception of green building; and future directions for the theory and practice ofsustainable construction. The essays offer uniquely multidisciplinary insights into thetransformative potential of green building and the obstacles that must be overcome to make it thenorm.
Contributors Lauren Barhydt, Clayton Bartczak,Lyn Bartram, Olivier Berthod, Nicole Woolsey Biggart, Lenora Bohren, Bertien Broekhans, WilliamBrowning, Zinta S. Byrne, Michael Conger, Jennifer E. Cross, David Deal, Beth M. Duckles, BrianDunbar, Robert Eccles, Amy Edmondson, Bill Franzen, Ronald Fry, Rebecca L. Henn, Jock Herron,Stephen Hockley, Andrew J. Hoffman, Kathryn B. Janda, Nitin Joglekar, Gavin Killip, Alison G. Kwok,Larissa Larsen, Michelle A. Meyer, Christine Mondor, Monica Ponce de Leon, Nicholas B. Rajkovich,Stuart Reeve, Johnny Rodgers, Garima Sharma, Geoffrey Thün, Ellen van Bueren, Kathy Velikov, RohitVerma, Robert Woodbury, Jeffrey G. York, Jie Zhang
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- EditoreMit Pr
- Data di pubblicazione2013
- ISBN 10 0262019418
- ISBN 13 9780262019415
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine399
- RedattoreHenn Rebecca L., Hoffman Andrew J.
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