A Transition to Sustainable Housing: Progress and Prospects for a Low Carbon Housing Future

This open-access book examines the environmental, social, and financial challenges of housing provision and the urgent need for a sustainable housing transition. It explores market failures and policy attempts to address these challenges, including social justice and equity issues. Sustainability transitions theory is presented as a framework to facilitate the transition, and contemporary case studies are explored.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 289 pages
Publication date: 01 July 2023
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

This open-access book delves into the multifaceted challenges of housing provision, emphasizing the urgent need for a sustainable housing transition. The authors examine how market failures have hindered the expansion of sustainable housing solutions and explore the various policy initiatives aimed at addressing this issue. By expanding beyond an environmental lens, the book explores a wide range of housing-related challenges, including social justice and equity concerns. Sustainability transitions theory is presented as a framework to facilitate a sustainable housing transition, and a series of contemporary case studies are explored on topics such as high-performing housing, small housing, shared housing, neighborhood-scale housing, circular housing, and innovative financing for housing. This resource serves as a crucial catalyst for policymakers, planners, stakeholders in the housing construction industry, and researchers to reexamine the concept of housing, its design and construction, and the potential for integrating household impacts into broader policy development.

Weight: 420g
Dimension: 150 x 209 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789819927623
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023