Assessing Green-Building Policies with Structural Consistency and Behavioral Coherence: A Framework of Effectiveness and Efficiency
Publication: Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Volume 147, Issue 11
Abstract
Getting a better understanding of the policy effectiveness and efficiency is a promising topic for encouraging the green-building initiative in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. This study introduces a framework for assessing and improving the green-building policies concerning the effectiveness with “structural consistency” of policy instruments and the efficiency with “behavioral coherence” of interagency collaborative networks and examined it with China’s green-building policies from 2002 to 2019. This framework, using content mining and social network analysis, not merely provides a comprehensive approach for assessing policy performance of green-building initiative, but also contributes to integrating, comparing, and benchmarking the sustainability-transition studies from various industries and countries. The empirical evidence from China brings novel understandings to the policy-makers of emerging markets for the structural deficiencies in information services, international collaboration, and tax incentives, the three-stage roadmap of the green-building initiative, and the importance of policy agenda. This study contributes not only to the green-building literature by offering a systematic and referential framework for assessing policy performance but also to the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) community by guiding the improvement of green-building policies in emerging markets.
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All data, models, or codes that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Acknowledgments
This paper was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project Nos. 71901101 and 71971161), the Fellowship of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Project No. 2020M671134), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (Program No. 2662021JC002).
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