Low-carbon building regulations are acknowledged as critical instruments to facilitate the
building industry's decarbonization transition. However, recent studies have shown that non …

Alternative approaches to environmental regulation have gained much attention in recent
years. Information-based regulation is an increasingly popular type of instrument that refers …

Climate change mitigation has two main characteristics that interact to make it an extremely
demanding challenge of governance: the complexity of the socio-technical systems that …

In this paper we examine the failure of the zero carbon homes agenda in the UK and argue
that it represents a case of policy dismantling, where a range of policies and programmes …

In England, there is a longstanding and increasing undersupply of both affordable and open-
market housing. Around three quarters of all new homes in the UK are currently built …

The role of quality infrastructure, ie, regulation, standardization, metrology, conformity
assessment, and accreditation, is analyzed in the general context of socio-technical …

Addressing housing-related energy consumption and emissions is a challenge in many
countries. Low-energy housing, eg whole house retrofits and zero-energy new houses, is …

Over the past 20 years, building environmental assessment methods (BEAMs) have been
promoted as a means to achieve more sustainable and environmentally friendly (green) …

Housing represents a critical sector globally in the drive to reduce carbon emissions with
many countries adopting building energy standards to lower the carbon emissions of new …

This paper provides a firm‐level perspective on sustainability transitions by analysing how
government can use transition policy mixes to entice industry incumbents to adapt their …