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Developers, investors and policymakers must respond with urgency to the threatening climate and ecosystem crisis and set targets aligning with the 2015 Paris Agreement.  All participants in the new-build and building renovation value chain must cooperate to establish a standard performance system based on sustainable a ...

Environmental defenders are individuals and collectives who take action to protect the environment and to protest unjust and unsustainable use of resources.  This paper provides insight on the characteristics of environmental conflicts, the engaged environmental defenders, and successful mobilization strategies.  The p ...

There are various global temperature rise and ecosystem impact scenarios, representing uncertainty that affects climate change exposure and vulnerability.  This IPCC report summarizes the current understanding of observed climate change impacts on ecosystems, human societies and their cities, settlements, infrastructur ...

Sustainable procurement management (SPM) as an approach to integrating sustainability into construction projects that takes into account the social, ecological, and economic consequences of procurement decisions.  This study recognizes several challenges that obstruct the effective interaction between stakeholders in a ...

This study demonstrates the environmental impact of building materials from production and construction, including transport, replacement and deconstruction, for a single-family house in Sweden.  It focused on building materials, materials transport, replacement of essential construction materials, and the environmenta ...