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

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This open access book explores the environmental, social, and financial challenges of housing provision, and the urgent need for a sustainable housing transition. The authors explore how market failures have impacted the scaling up of sustainable housing and the various policy attempts to address this. Going beyond an environmental focus, the book explores a range of housing-related challenges including social justice and equity issues. Sustainability transitions theory is presented as a framework to help facilitate a sustainable housing transition and a range of contemporary case studies are explored on issues including high performing housing, small housing, shared housing, neighbourhood-scale housing, circular housing, and innovative financing for housing. It is an important new resource that challenges policy makers, planners, housing construction industry stakeholders, and researchers to rethink what housing is, how we design and construct it, and how we can better integrate impacts on households to wider policy development. Foreword Acknowledgements Expert Quotes on Book Contents About the Authors List of Figures List of Tables 1: Housing for a Sustainable Future 1.1 Introduction 1.2 A Changing World 1.3 The Importance of Housing 1.4 The Promise of Sustainable Housing 1.5 The Current System 1.6 Overview of the Book References 2: Current Housing Provision 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The Market Failure of Sustainable Housing 2.3 Building Codes 2.3.1 Mandatory Codes 2.3.2 Voluntary Codes 2.4 Planning 2.5 Alternative Mechanisms 2.6 Conclusion References 3: A Critical Juncture 3.1 Introduction 3.2 An Urgency for Change 3.2.1 Locked In 3.2.2 Timeframes and Targets 3.2.3 Green New Deals 3.3 Innovations in Sustainable Housing 3.4 Conclusion References 4: The Sustainable Housing Challenge 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Dwelling Scale 4.2.1 Planning and Design 4.2.2 Materials, Construction, and End of Life 4.2.3 Use and Technology 4.3 Neighbourhood and City Scale 4.3.1 Where and How to House a Growing Population 4.3.2 Urban Climate Change 4.4 State, National, and International Scale 4.4.1 The Social Challenges 4.4.2 Governance 4.5 A Market Unwilling to Change 4.6 The Complexity of Housing 4.7 Conclusion References 5: Providing Sustainable Housing through Sustainability Transitions 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Sustainability Transitions 5.3 Where Do Transitions Occur? 5.4 Sustainable Housing Transitions 5.5 Conclusion References 6: Socio-Technical Dimensions for a Sustainable Housing Transition 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Guiding Principles 6.2.1 Living Within Planetary Means 6.3 Physical Attributes 6.3.1 Cross Laminated Timber 6.4 Knowledge 6.4.1 Vancouver House/Vienna House 6.5 Geography 6.5.1 Zoning Reform 6.6 Industrial Structures and Organizations 6.6.1 Prefabrication 6.7 Markets, Users, and Power 6.7.1 Rating Tools 6.8 Policy, Regulations, and Governance 6.8.1 Banning Fossil Fuel-Based Heating 6.9 Everyday Life and Practices 6.9.1 Electrification of Homes 6.10 Culture, Civil Society, and Social Movements 6.10.1 Renew—Organization and Sustainability Magazines 6.11 Ethical Aspects 6.11.1 Half a House 6.12 Conclusion References 7: Sustainable Housing in Practice 7.1 Introduction 7.2 High Performing Housing 7.2.1 Erneley Close—United Kingdom 7.2.2 Whistler Housing Authority Employee Housing—Canada 7.3 Small Housing 7.3.1 Tiny Houses—Globally 7.3.2 Laneway Houses—Canada 7.3.3 Never Too Small—Globally 7.3.4 600sqftandababy—Canada 7.4 Shared Housing 7.4.1 Co-Housing—Globally 7.4.2 Nightingale Housing—Australia 7.4.3 Three Generation House—Netherlands 7.5 Neighbourhood-Scale Housing 7.5.1 Dockside Green—Canada 7.5.2 White Gum Valley—Australia 7.6 Circular Housing 7.6.1 Circle House—Denmark 7.6.2 SUPERLOCAL—Netherlands 7.6.3 Cape Paterson Ecovillage—Australia 7.7 Innovative Financing for Housing 7.7.1 Baugruppen—Germany 7.7.2 Green Mortgages—Globally 7.7.3 Rebates and Subsidies—Globally 7.8 Conclusion References 8: Facilitating the Sustainable Housing Transition 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Sustainable Housing Transitions: Beyond a Niche 8.3 Facilitating the Transition 8.4 A Time for Reflection 8.5 Conclusion References 9: Prospects for a Sustainable Housing Transition 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Sustainable Housing: Current Context, Future Challenges 9.3 Prospects for Deep Structural Change 9.4 A Final Reflection References Index