Sustainability discourse, place and the green building
The world's nations concede that sustainable development is an appropriate response to the threat of global ecological destruction caused by industrialization. The discourse of sustainable development, or 'sustainability', legitimizes attempts to rearrange society through reproduction...
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| description | The world's nations concede that sustainable development is an appropriate response to the threat of global ecological destruction caused by industrialization. The discourse of sustainable development, or 'sustainability', legitimizes attempts to rearrange society through reproduction of the threat that humanity will annihilate itself unless its practices are reformed.This paper provides an analysis of sustainability discourses in the building industry and the ecological modernist storyline of 'green building'. It describes the application of Maarten Hajer’s discourse analysis methods to representations by industry professionals and academics at a series of conferences on sustainable built environments held in Australia, Singapore and Vietnam. The research findings describe how policies are produced and legitimized through nationally-contextualised sustainability discourses; and the findings indicate constraints in the production of policies for mitigating global ecological threats from industrialization. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-356762022-12-07T06:50:49Z Sustainability discourse, place and the green building Kerr, Thor J. Baldwin J. Baker H. Fordham J. Grellier C. Houen T. Kerr A. Reid discourse analysis green building ecological modernization green built environment sustainable development accreditation systems The world's nations concede that sustainable development is an appropriate response to the threat of global ecological destruction caused by industrialization. The discourse of sustainable development, or 'sustainability', legitimizes attempts to rearrange society through reproduction of the threat that humanity will annihilate itself unless its practices are reformed.This paper provides an analysis of sustainability discourses in the building industry and the ecological modernist storyline of 'green building'. It describes the application of Maarten Hajer’s discourse analysis methods to representations by industry professionals and academics at a series of conferences on sustainable built environments held in Australia, Singapore and Vietnam. The research findings describe how policies are produced and legitimized through nationally-contextualised sustainability discourses; and the findings indicate constraints in the production of policies for mitigating global ecological threats from industrialization. 2008 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35676 http://hgsoconference.curtin.edu.au/previous/2008_proceedings.cfm http://hgsoconference.curtin.edu.au/previous/kerr.cfm Curtin University restricted |
| spellingShingle | discourse analysis green building ecological modernization green built environment sustainable development accreditation systems Kerr, Thor Sustainability discourse, place and the green building |
| title | Sustainability discourse, place and the green building |
| title_full | Sustainability discourse, place and the green building |
| title_fullStr | Sustainability discourse, place and the green building |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sustainability discourse, place and the green building |
| title_short | Sustainability discourse, place and the green building |
| title_sort | sustainability discourse, place and the green building |
| topic | discourse analysis green building ecological modernization green built environment sustainable development accreditation systems |
| url | http://hgsoconference.curtin.edu.au/previous/2008_proceedings.cfm http://hgsoconference.curtin.edu.au/previous/2008_proceedings.cfm http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35676 |