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Abstract Decoupling economic growth from its negative environmental impacts is emphasized as a key strategy for achieving environmental sustainability. Indicators to measure this decoupling are of importance to policy-making, social debates and academic research. Growth in the housing sector has been linked to a number of negative environmental impacts. Based on theoretical analyses of decoupling strategies for that sector, this article proposes a comprehensive and systematic set of indicators for decoupling of housing-related environmental impacts from economic growth. These indicators measure three aspects of the decoupling strategies: substituting for growth in the housing sector; increasing the economic value of the residential building stock via qualitative improvement; and improving eco-efficiency in relation to residential buildings. The indicator set covers the environmental consequences from the housing sector in terms of material consumption, energy consumption and land-related impacts. Applications of some of the indicators are then illustrated with an example from a case study in the Hangzhou Metropolitan Area in China. Finally, the fruitfulness and limitations of the decoupling indicators are discussed.
Abstract Decoupling economic growth from its negative environmental impacts is emphasized as a key strategy for achieving environmental sustainability. Indicators to measure this decoupling are of importance to policy-making, social debates and academic research. Growth in the housing sector has been linked to a number of negative environmental impacts. Based on theoretical analyses of decoupling strategies for that sector, this article proposes a comprehensive and systematic set of indicators for decoupling of housing-related environmental impacts from economic growth. These indicators measure three aspects of the decoupling strategies: substituting for growth in the housing sector; increasing the economic value of the residential building stock via qualitative improvement; and improving eco-efficiency in relation to residential buildings. The indicator set covers the environmental consequences from the housing sector in terms of material consumption, energy consumption and land-related impacts. Applications of some of the indicators are then illustrated with an example from a case study in the Hangzhou Metropolitan Area in China. Finally, the fruitfulness and limitations of the decoupling indicators are discussed.
Indicators of decoupling housing-related environmental impacts from economic growth
Xue, Jin (author)
2012
Article (Journal)
English
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