Green Building Transitions Regional Trajectories of Innovation in Europe, Canada and Australia /

• Main Authors: Affolderbach, Julia (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Schulz, Christian (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The Urban Book Series,
• Subjects: Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Sustainable development.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Sustainable Development.

This volume analyzes sustainability-related innovations in the building sector and discusses how regional contexts articulate transition trajectories toward green building. It presents 'biographies' of drivers and processes of green building innovation in four case studies: Brisbane (AUS),...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Section 1: Green cities in sustainable transitions. Chapter 2. Sustainability Transitions
• Chapter 3. Governing the green city
• Chapter 4. Methodology
• Section 2: Green buildings in urban contexts
• Chapter 5. Freiburg
• Chapter 6. Vancouver
• Chapter 7. Brisbane
• Chapter 8. Luxembourg
• Section 3. Trajectories of greening. Chapter 9. Cities as seedbeds for sustainability innovations
• Chapter 10. Leading the green building transition?
• Chapter 11. Conclusion. .