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An Actor Network Theory Analysis of BREEAM Communities
BREEAM Communities is a framework for assessing and improving the sustainability of the built environment at the neighbourhood scale. It is thought of primarily as a market-led, voluntary framework but is now being used by some Local Authorities in the UK as a requirement for planning applications of large developments. Previous research has mainly focused on comparing these frameworks to identify their strengths and weaknesses on paper, and sometimes to develop new frameworks. However, there has been less research on their development and implementation. This investigation looks to understand the ways in which BREEAM Communities interacts with actors across three interconnected phases in the lifecycle of the standard: its fabrication, its translation into particular development projects (often obligated by local planning rules and guidelines), and finally its attempts to influence development decisions, judgements, calculations, processes (and so on). This thesis hopes to increase sustainability practitioners’ understanding of what the framework asks of development actors and why, how it is incorporated into planning policy and developments, the ways BREEAM Communities seeks to assess and influence neighbourhood sustainability, and how actors react to this new standard in practice. As such it has contributed to our understanding of how successful these sorts of third party, voluntary, market-led frameworks might be at delivering the improvements in the sustainability of new neighbourhoods. This thesis also contributes to our understanding of how ANT might be used to study these sorts of assessment frameworks that seem to act at the boundaries, supporting incremental (if any) changes to development networks.
An Actor Network Theory Analysis of BREEAM Communities
BREEAM Communities is a framework for assessing and improving the sustainability of the built environment at the neighbourhood scale. It is thought of primarily as a market-led, voluntary framework but is now being used by some Local Authorities in the UK as a requirement for planning applications of large developments. Previous research has mainly focused on comparing these frameworks to identify their strengths and weaknesses on paper, and sometimes to develop new frameworks. However, there has been less research on their development and implementation. This investigation looks to understand the ways in which BREEAM Communities interacts with actors across three interconnected phases in the lifecycle of the standard: its fabrication, its translation into particular development projects (often obligated by local planning rules and guidelines), and finally its attempts to influence development decisions, judgements, calculations, processes (and so on). This thesis hopes to increase sustainability practitioners’ understanding of what the framework asks of development actors and why, how it is incorporated into planning policy and developments, the ways BREEAM Communities seeks to assess and influence neighbourhood sustainability, and how actors react to this new standard in practice. As such it has contributed to our understanding of how successful these sorts of third party, voluntary, market-led frameworks might be at delivering the improvements in the sustainability of new neighbourhoods. This thesis also contributes to our understanding of how ANT might be used to study these sorts of assessment frameworks that seem to act at the boundaries, supporting incremental (if any) changes to development networks.
An Actor Network Theory Analysis of BREEAM Communities
Sullivan, Lewis J (author)
2020-08-28
Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).
Theses
Electronic Resource
English
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710
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