Environmentally Sustainable Buildings
Subtitle: Challenges and Policies
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9789264033863
Subjects: Ecology; Euthenics; Nature and nurture; Adaptation (Biology)
Description: This book presents an analysis of the environmental impacts of the building sector and of current policies to mitigate these impacts, in particular with regard to reduction of CO2 emission, minimisation of construction and demolition waste and prevention of indoor air pollution.  It covers a wide range of policy instruments; building regulation, capital subsidy programmes, energy tax, landfill tax, environmental labelling schemes, energy audit schemes.  It indicates the direction in which environmental policies for the building sector should be developed.
Table of contents: title: Executive Summary; title: Chapter 1. Introduction; title: Chapter 2. Environmental and Economic Impacts of the Building Sector; title: Chapter 3. Current Situation of Environmental Policies for the Building Sector; title: Chapter 4. Unique Characteristics of the Building Sector and Barriers to Improvement; title: Chapter 5. Policy Instrument Options for Environmentally; title: Chapter 6. Designing and Implementing Policies for Environmentally; title: Chapter 7. Conclusions: Policy Recommendations; title: Annex: Result of Survey on the Current Situation of Environmental Policies for the Building Sector in OECD Countries