A critical discussion of the BREEAM Communities method as applied to Chinese eco-village assessment

Liu, Chenxi; Wang, Fan; MacKillop, Fionn

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2020.102172

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“…The limitations in the Chinese eco-village assessment result, criteria, and indicators that were identified in a previous study [29] have now been further confirmed with qualitative and quantitative methods on a representative case, and the corresponding solutions were given in this paper. First, a static assessment should be avoided as the eco-village development tendency must be considered and used in decision making for future development.…”

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“…The first-ever BREEAM Communities certificate was issued to a new developed sustainable community in Nanjing, the Qinglong Mountain International Eco-city, in 2016 [47,48]. How-ever, the BREEAM Communities method has its restrictions and limitations for assessing Chinese eco-villages [29]. As it is designed for a different purpose, BREEAM Communities cannot address the social issues related to demographic changes, and it is also not applicable for the assessment of agricultural problems such as farmland reclamation, which are both mandatory assessments in ECBV.…”

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“…These assessments were the trial versions, and they constituted the early efforts to regulate and assess eco-village development in China. However, these early versions of Chinese ecovillage assessments had some limitations, such as unbalanced criteria, limited indicators, and a complicated assessment process [19,29]. Thus, Chinese researchers have highlighted that assessing an eco-village is as essential as building it, and they have suggested formulating a specific assessment to comprehensively assess sustainability performance [30,31].…”

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“…This paper aims to identify the limitations of the current Chinese eco-village assessment, ECBV, and to propose solutions. The solutions were developed by applying a revised assessment approach developed in a previous study [29] to a carefully selected development case and analysing each of the assessment aspects. The case study results from Zhenghu Village will be presented in Section 4.…”

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“…Figure 2. Structure of the study approach developed from previous eco-village assessment research[29].…”

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Eco-village development has been considered by the Chinese central government as part of its rural revitalisation campaign and it is seen as a crucial/main solution to the increasingly serious rural issues caused by urban–rural inequality. A significant number of eco-villages are being or will be developed with government leadership and support under the guidance of a corresponding assessment. However, the latest Chinese eco-village assessment, the Evaluation for the Construction of Beautiful Villages (ECBV), has been found to have limitations related to the assessment process, method, and indicators, meaning that it cannot be used to perform a balanced evaluation of the social, economic, and environmental aspects of an eco-village. As assessing an eco-village is as essential as building it, it has become necessary to balance the criteria and improve the ECBV assessment so that it can review existing achievements, guide further development, and ensure better outcomes. Thus, this paper aims to: (1) identify the limitations of ECBV through a case study of a carefully selected Chinese eco-village, Zhenghu Village, by repeating the assessment process and analysing the assessment results, and (2) propose three possible solutions to improve the assessment by applying a revised ECBV assessment, the components of which are adopted and revised from an internationally recognised sustainability assessment, the Sustainable Development Indicators (SDIs). The results of the case study confirm the limitations of the ECBV assessment. Besides, the research outcomes of these three possible solutions can improve ECBV assessment and also provide ideas for the improvement of other existing assessment methods. Moreover, other developing countries may apply the research process and method introduced in this paper to formulate or improve their own eco-village assessments.

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A critical discussion of the BREEAM Communities method as applied to Chinese eco-village assessment

Cited by 21 publications

References 43 publications

Exploring Solutions to Improve the Evaluation of Development of Rural Villages: A Case Study of the Application of the Evaluation for the Construction of Beautiful Villages (ECBV) in a Village in South China

Exploring Solutions to Improve the Evaluation of Development of Rural Villages: A Case Study of the Application of the Evaluation for the Construction of Beautiful Villages (ECBV) in a Village in South China

Residents' environmental behavior in eco‐community development and its influencing factors: Evidence from Dongying City, Shandong Province in China

Ageing population and society: a scientometric analysis

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