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Action
Programme on Sustainable
Design & Construction
Rather than formulating a bland global model for Sustainable Design
& Construction, separate responses must be developed for each
of these very different regions ......
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Africa,
Northern
Asia,
Central Asia,
Australasia,
Oceania,
Europe,
the Middle East,
North America,
Central America & the Caribbean,
South America,
Antarctica,
the Arctic,
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......
in order to ensure the greatest degree of suitability to local
geography, climate, economy, culture and need.
There are
four major obstacles, however, which hinder or prevent this work
from even beginning in many countries ......
Region
of Europe
The
European Union - because of a colonial history, its highly evolved
legal base underpinning an extensive array of policies and action
programmes relating to energy, environmental and sustainable development
concerns, and because of specific commitments arising from the
1997 Kyoto
Protocol - is well placed, and legally/morally obliged,
to lead by example and produce a first comprehensive outline for
one of these regional responses to the 1992 Rio Declaration
and Agenda 21.
extract
from the European
Charter on Sustainable Design & Construction
- Arriving
at a Consensus on 'Sustainable Human and Social Development'
Europe must decide, now and not later, whether its own future
development, and its relationships with other global regions,
will take the course of ........
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'business
as usual' ;
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(ii)
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'business
as usual - but with merely cosmetic tinkering at the edges'
;
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(iii)
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'sustainable
human and social development'.
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The European
Charter on Sustainable Design & Construction raises
the issues which must be addressed, and the manner in which this
decision should be made.
- A Sustainability
Strategy & Futures Scenario for Europe
The European
Union already has an existing, highly evolved legal base
which underpins an extensive array of policies and actions
relating to sustainable human and social development. Together
with the legally binding commitments agreed in the 1997 Kyoto
Protocol, Europe is well positioned, and morally bound, to
produce a comprehensive 'sustainability strategy' for this
century,
with core values being social justice, solidarity and inclusion.
The 1997 E.U. Amsterdam Treaty makes the formulation of this
strategy a necessity.
Existing futures scenarios should be revised to take account of the recent E.U.
enlargement (2004-05-01), and the next phases of enlargement .... including
Turkey.
See one
such Futures
Scenario for Western Europe.
-
European
Action Programme on Sustainable Design & Construction for
the
21st Century
Critically, emphasis must be placed on creative design, competent
implementation, reliable targeting and benchmarking of performance
- and a fundamental re-organization of our European institutional
frameworks.
Essential
components in the Action Programme are ........
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the
elaboration of detailed construction
related sustainability performance indicators
at European, regional and local levels
- and the development of a sustainability
label award scheme to give direction to this enormous
worktask ;
(
at international level, this organization was the first
to produce a fundamental
matrix which established the overall framework for
managing construction related indicators )
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(ii)
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the wide dissemination of practical planning, design, construction
/ de-construction, management and operation guidance ;
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(iii)
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the
production of a sharp, focused
research and technical control agenda -
initially for the period up to 2010 .... and serious preparations should now
be in train for the period 2011 - 2040. |
- The
Human Environment as Negative Internal Forcing on the Earth
System
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