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Governing Sustainable Waste Management: Designing sustainable waste management into the housing sector [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
In seeking to shift municipal waste policy towards sustainability, policy-makers at European, national and local levels are facing the challenge of how to engage householders in reducing, reusing and recycling their waste.
Askins, Kye   +2 more
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Sustainability or Bust: Malaysian Home Buyers’ Stated Preferences for Sus-Tainable Housing

open access: yesMATEC Web of Conferences, 2016
The lack of data on sustainable home buying behaviour in developing countries such as Malaysia is due to the absence of sustainable housing itself. However, it is still possible to solicit home buyers for their stated preferences and quantify its effects
Syahid A., Tareq M.A., Zaki S.A.
doaj   +1 more source

Liveability Considerations: Towards Designing Sustainable Public Housing in Niger State, Nigeria

open access: yesJournal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, 2023
This study investigates liveability in the context of sustainable public housing in Niger State, Nigeria, where existing housing efforts have fallen short of residents' satisfaction.
Paul Baba Haruna   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Coolum House [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
A more considered approach to existing housing stock on highly desirable lots is the more sustainable option of adaptation as opposed to demolition particularly if the designed outcome demonstrates flexible, liveable and affordable space that capitalizes
Molloy, Michael
core   +1 more source

Governance and sustainability in Glasgow: connecting symbolic capital and housing consumption to regeneration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
To transcend a legacy of slum-living, paternalistic provision and urban decline, Glasgow City Council has endeavoured to transform the city's fortunes by a plethora of mechanisms that have at their core the establishment of sustainable communities ...
Amin   +34 more
core   +1 more source

10 Criteria of Sustainable Housing: A Literature Review

open access: yes, 2020
This paper reviews studies on sustainable housing criteria based on their implementation. This paper proposes studies on sustainable housing criteria from previous researchers.
Susanti Muvana Nainggolan   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Implementation of affordable housing programmes in Johor, Malaysia for sustainable housing

open access: yesIOP Conference Series: Earth and Environment, 2020
Sustainability in housing includes the concept of housing affordability that revolves around the elements of sustainable housing affordability. Affordable housing provision could be discussed under the context of social equity where it demonstrates the ...
H. Masram, S. H. Misnan, A. M. Yassin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Proposal for Desert House Design in Egypt Using Passive Ground Cooling Techniques

open access: yesRenewable Energy and Sustainable Development, 2018
An area less than 5.5% of Egyptian territory is where most of Egypt‘s population lives in. A narrow strip of land forms the Nile Valley and Delta sector.The National Project for Desert Hinterlands is one of the urban projects targeting rehabilitation of ...
Mohamed Medhat Dorra   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainable Housing in the Urban Context: International Sustainable Development Indicator Sets and Housing

open access: yesSocial Indicators Research, 2007
Housing, an essential aspect of quality of life, is also significant for sustainable development (SD). All of the major international statements on SD refer to housing or settlement strategies. However, indicator sets derived from these statements often fail to include good indicators of sustainable housing.
Winston, Nessa   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The PUSH Green Development Zone, Building Housing Equity from the Ground Up [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
2008 marks the year that PUSH Buffalo founded the Green Development Zone in Buffalo’s West Side. Encompassing 25 square blocks, the Green Development Zone (GDZ) is an area that PUSH is making more environmentally and economically sustainable.1 PUSH ...
Magavern, Sam
core   +1 more source

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