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标题：Exploring the knowledge ‘base’ of practitioners in the delivery of sustainable regeneration projects
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作者：Julius Akotia ; Alex Opoku ; Charles Egbu 等
期刊名称：Construction Economics and Building
印刷版ISSN：2204-9029
出版年度：2016
卷号：16
期号：2
页码：14-26
语种：English
出版社：UTS ePRESS
摘要：In recent years, sustainable regeneration has been recognised as being of major economic and social concern in the world. In the UK for instance, government has initiated a number of policies and evaluation methods to deal with some of the environmental problems associated with regeneration projects. However, the post construction evaluation of these projects has often resulted in them being seen as not achieving their set objectives. Attempts aimed at evaluating the impact of sustainability by built environment practitioners have primarily been limited to their assessment of the projects’ potential environmental impacts, with the associated socio-economic impacts being neglected. There has not been any well-defined built environment research that has been able to deal holistically with the broader issues of sustainability in terms of benefits/impacts of the regeneration projects to the communities concerned. The findings of an exploratory study that adopted a semi-structured interview approach for data collection, to explore the knowledge and understanding of fifteen practitioners who are often involved in the delivery of these projects are presented. The findings reveal a lack of knowledge and understanding of sustainability as well as structured mechanism/practices for evaluating the socio-economic sustainability factors in relation to regeneration projects.
关键词：Knowledge and understanding;practitioners;sustainability benefit;sustainable regeneration