Purpose -This paper seeks to consider how policy changes may drive a change in leasing practices, in order to reduce environmental impact (particularly carbon dioxide emissions) from the commercial building stock. Design/methodology/approach -In many countries, including the UK, environmental policy (particularly on carbon dioxide emissions from energy use) is beginning to impact on the commercial property market. This paper explores barriers to improved performance, two models for greening leases (a light green and dark green approach) based on work by the authors from Cardiff University and the Australian government, as well as how tenanted buildings can be managed "more greenly". It then explores how green leases may penetrate the market. Findings -The conventional relationship between the landlord (as building owner) and tenant (as occupier) largely neglects environmental considerations. However, change may be rapid, disruptive and challenging. Originality/value -The paper lays out some of the issues, solutions, and pathways for the commercial property industry.
An account is given of a research project with particular attention to the place of data analysis and interpretation. It shines some light into what often remains the black box of qualitative research practice, the mysterious process of generating a research narrative based on the data. The paper provides other apprentice researchers with an insight into what the data analytical experience can be like, warts and all. It raises issues to do with qualitative data analysis, the use of CAQDAS, grounded theory, the relationship between the narratives of the researcher and the researched, and about the training of qualitative researchers.
Contexts`M any commentators seem to assume that the language of the environment and the market are mutually opposed. However, green buildings can offer many potential commercial benefits .... Much depends upon how the`market' is constructed by the changing priorities of real estate actors. Critically here, market assessment is often a retrospective affair .... Real estate agents are central to this process of market reconstruction.'' Guy (2002, pages 256^257)`I n this way research into energy efficiency finds itself on what Callon has termed a new terrain: that of society in the making' (1987, page 83). This refocuses analysis away from pure energy questions to a wider set of debates about design conventions, investment analysis, development costs, space utilisation, and market value.'' Guy (2006, page 651) In this paper we explore the role and practices of property agents in the commercial property market and in particular the way agency articulates with the low-carbon buildings agenda. We use agency as a window on a larger process which we refer to as the social production of (un)sustainable buildings, a phrase that is intended to capture the fact that a large number of different actors together produce the built environment and the carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions associated with its use. There can be no doubt about the importance of building-related energy consumption in the context of climate change mitigation. According to recent research for the fourth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report, the building sector represents the largest cost-effective potential among all the sectors reported by the IPCC (U ë rge-Vorsatz and Novikova, 2008). However as efforts made
I investigate British forestry policy using original primary data from interviews with staff working for the Forestry Commission. Insight is provided into one of Britain's oldest institutions of environmental governance as it sought to redefine its contribution to society at a particularly turbulent period in its recent history. The work is presented in relationship to institutional change in rural areas, environmental governance, and postproductivism. A conceptual framework is employed using ideas from Giddens's structuration theory, Goffman's collaborative production of identities, and Foucault's discourse theory. Particular attention is paid to the implications of transitions for collective and individual work-based identities.
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