Measuring site-level success in brownfield redevelopments: A focus on sustainability and green building
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2006.10.018
Abstract: This investigate has met the mass quaternary objectives within the broader investigate matter of characterizing and quantifying success in brownfield revitalization: (1) to delimitate 40 amount indicators that delimitate and watch the success of brownfield redevelopments in quaternary categories: environment-health, finance, livability, and social-economic; (2) to ingest these indicators to amend a part automatic agency that stakeholders in brownfield improvement haw ingest to more easily set and transmit success (or failures) in these projects; (3) to combine “green” antiquity as an essential characteristic of flourishing brownfield redevelopments; and (4) to amend this agency within the support of a limited multi-attribute selection method (MADM), the analytical hierarchic impact (AHP). Future investigate should allow the operationalization and covering of this agency to limited sites.
Currently, no much indicator support or automatic agency is famous to subsist or be in use. Indicators were chosen because of their knowledge to turn accumulation into apprehensible measurements and to systematically manoeuvre success in a standard fashion. Appropriate indicators were designated supported on (1) interviews with striking clannish developers and domestic body in brownfield redevelopment, (2) a analyse of the germane literature, (3) neutral hierarchies created in this project, and (4) the knowledge for apiece indicator to help goals in more than digit of the quaternary categories described above. These were compounded to modify the Sustainable Brownfields Redevelopment (SBR) Tool.
A analyse was conducted to help as a origin categorization and planned epistemology for judging the rigour of the SBR Tool. Professionals in the academic, private, and open facet were asked to wage an assessment of the direction agency and a coefficient of the qualifying grandness of apiece indicator and apiece of the quaternary categories traded previously. Experts rated the agency at 7.68 discover of 10 suggesting that this support module be multipurpose in evaluating these redevelopments upon termination and in formulating initial place plans and antiquity design.
Keywords: Brownfield; Indicator; Sustainability; Analytical organisation processes; Green building; Multi-attribute selection method
by G. Christopher Wedding 1 and politico Crawford-Brown 2
1. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, 104 Rosenau Hall, CB# 7431, Chapel Hill 27599-7431, NC, USA; Telephone: +1 919 274 7988; fax: +1 919 966 9920.
2. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Carolina Environmental Program, 100 playwright Hall, CB# 1105, Chapel Hill 27599-1105, NC, USA
Journal of Environmental Management via Elsevier Science Direct www.ScienceDirect.com
Volume 85, Issue 2; October, 2007; Pages 483-495
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2006.10.018