REM 420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Material Flow Analysis, Judith Curry, Carbon Tax
3 May 2017
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What is sustainable real estate development: market institutions tend to promote efficiency or maintain social stability, however that may be defined. They can usually do one or the other, but not both. Includes supply management and stability at the cost of innovation this is an example of an institution. Supply management each province has a board to manage inventory of certain resources which helps to guarantee a price and undermine innovation. Defined by the world commission on environment and development. Greater brownfield reclamation contaminated land that used to be industrial and is contaminated to a certain degree. The problem is that the industrial land could be dating back to chemical production from many years ago, which will be hard to track: power usage. In order to attract certain occupiers of space, development could use leed certification to bring them in. Also includes minimal water usage, minimizing utility usage, alternative transportation methods: urban externalities.
