The design of effective policies for the promotion of sustainable construction materials
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2006.
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| author | Kua, Harn Wei, 1971- |
| author2 | John Fernandez and Nicholas Ashford. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/372662019-06-11T03:16:15Z The design of effective policies for the promotion of sustainable construction materials Kua, Harn Wei, 1971- John Fernandez and Nicholas Ashford. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Architecture. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2006. Includes bibliographical references. This research explores the associated effects of policy tools employed to promote sustainable building materials. By comparing the original motivations and intended effects of these policies and their actual outcome, and subsequently understanding the reasons behind any disparities between them, we suggest ways by which future policy planning can be improved. This research is based on seven detailed case studies. They cover the applications of virgin material taxes in Denmark and Sweden, forest management and biodiversity legislations in United States' Northwest and its coupling economic adjustment initiative, legislations/public outreach/demonstration projects on the use of substitute fuels for cement manufacturing in United States and the United Kingdom, and economic incentives to promote afforestation/reforestation in Chile. Each of these cases is attended by negative, unanticipated outcomes. By analyzing these outcomes, we observe that a negative and unanticipated policy outcome occurs when a sustainability indicator/issue is either completely ignored by policymakers, or the policymakers fail to identify intrinsic but inconspicuous links between seemingly disparate indicators. (cont.) These unexpected outcomes can be reduced, or avoided, if policymakers conceptualize policies more broadly, for which purpose we propose the concept of integrated policymaking. This concept promotes the idea of co-addressing, or even co-optimizing, a wide range of eleven to sixteen sustainability indicators covering all the three domains of sustainability - economy, environment and employment. Furthermore, in doing so, policymakers must promote interactions among the different levels of governmental agencies (i.e. horizontal and vertical integration) and between the governmental and non-governmental stakeholder groups (i.e. time horizon integration and integration across stakeholder groups). We emphasize the significance of five different but interrelated types of feedback loops in supporting these different types and goals of integration. Finally, we applied this concept to the seven cases and proposed a series of innovative integrated policy strategies to address the negative, unanticipated outcomes observed. by Harn Wei Kua. Ph.D. 2008-01-10T17:33:29Z 2008-01-10T17:33:29Z 2006 2006 Thesis http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/37266 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37266 86108448 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/37266 http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 327 p. application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Architecture. Kua, Harn Wei, 1971- The design of effective policies for the promotion of sustainable construction materials |
| title | The design of effective policies for the promotion of sustainable construction materials |
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| title_short | The design of effective policies for the promotion of sustainable construction materials |
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| topic | Architecture. |
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