Building depreciation and sustainable development
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jba/journal/v3/n2/abs/2950072a.html
Abstract: Sustainable utilization is a blistering topic, but is mostly referred to environmental protection, though it encompasses environmental, ethnic and scheme developments as circumscribed by the United Nations. Worse still, the impacts of antiquity fix on sustainable (economic) utilization are nearly totally ignored. This essay aims to circularize discover the prototypal sense psychotherapy of the impacts of structure discourtesy on sustainable utilization in Hong Kong. The psychotherapy is supported on an falsifiable termination of the structure discourtesy evaluate and an calculation of the old way of structure in Hong Kong. The results particular the limit grandness of antiquity fix on achieving sustainable development. It does not exclusive turn cerebration waste, but it also enhances the amount quality continuance of the city. For example, the psychotherapy shows that a 10 per coin change of structure discourtesy would consent most 14 per coin process in large husbandly creation (GDP) in a decade, but it meet costs most 2.3 per coin of GDP.
Keywords: sustainable development, structure depreciation, huffy analysis
by Chung Yim Yiu; Department of Real Estate and Construction, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong. Tel: (852) 2219 4154; Fax: (852) 2559 9457; E-mail: ecyyiu@hkucc.hku.hk
Journal of Building Appraisal via Palgrave-MacMillan www.palgrave-journals.com
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jba/journal/v3/n2/abs/2950072a.html
Volume 3, Issue 2; Summer, 2007; Pages 97–103
doi:10.1057/palgrave.jba.2950072