With the built environment contributing almost half of global greenhouse emissions, there is a pressing need for the property and real estate discipline to thoroughly investigate sustainability concerns. The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Real Estate brings together the latest research of leading academics globally, demonstrating the nature and extent of the impact as well as suggesting means of mitigating humankind's impact and building resilience. Four sections examine the different aspects of sustainable real estate:
- governance and policy
- valuation, investment and finance
- management
- redevelopment and adaptation.
Covering all land uses from residential to commercial, retail and industrial, the Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Real Estate is an exciting mixture of received wisdom and emerging ideas and approaches from both the developed and developing world. Academics, upper-level students and researchers will find this book an essential guide to the very best of sustainable real estate research.
About the Author: Sara Wilkinson is a Chartered Building Surveyor, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered
Surveyors (RICS) and a member of the Australian Property Institute (API). She has worked in
UK and Australian universities over 26 years. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the
School of Built Environment at UTS, Sydney. Her PhD examined building adaptation, whilst
the MPhil explored the conceptual understanding of green buildings. Her research focus is on
sustainability, adaptation of the built environment, retrofit of green roofs, and conceptual
understanding of sustainability. In 2015 Sara lead a City of Sydney funded project on the
Feasibility of Algae Building Technology in NSW and she continues to work on a cross
disciplinary project with a prototype panel being tested in 2017. With the Health Faculty, she
researches the impacts on health and wellbeing of horticultural therapy on retrofitted green
roofs. Sara is part of a cross disciplinary team of researchers from 4 NSW universities
investigating Urban Ecology Renewal in NSW for the Environment Trust NSW. Another
project explores whether a mandatory approach towards green roof and walls would work for
Australia. Sara sits on professional committees for RICS to inform her research and to ensure
direct benefit to industry. She sits on the editorial boards of five leading international journals
and is the Regional Editor for the International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation
in Australasia. Sara has published over 100 publications and books. Her research is published
in academic and professional journals, and recently, an RICS Best Practice Guidance Note on
Green Roofs and Walls for RICS practitioners.
Tim Dixon is Professor of Sustainable Futures in the Built Environment at the University of
Reading (School of the Built Environment). With more than 30 years' experience in
education, training and research in the built environment, he leads the Sustainability in the
Built Environment network at the University of Reading and is co‐director of the TSBE
doctoral training centre (Technologies for a Sustainable Built Environment). He has co-led
major UK research council research projects on brownfield land and urban retrofit, and is
currently working with local and regional partners to develop a 'Reading 2050' smart and
sustainable city vision, which also connected with the UK BIS Future Cities Foresight
Programme. Recently he has worked on funded research projects on a smart cities and big
data; smart and sustainable districts; and social sustainability for housebuilders. Tim is a
member of the Climate Change Berkshire Group, and a member of the All Party
Parliamentary Group on Smart Cities. He is also a member of the editorial boards of four
leading international real‐estate journals; a member of the Advisory Board for Local
Economy; a member of the review panel for Commonwealth Scholarship Commission; a
mentor for the Villiers Park Educational Trust; and a member of the review panel of the RICS
Research Paper Series. He was also a member of the international scientific committee for the
national 'Visions and Pathways 2040 Australia' project on cities. He has written more than
100 papers and books in the field.
Sarah Sayce is Professor in Sustainable Real Estate at the Royal
Agricultural University, UK and Emeritus Professor at Kingston University
UK, where for many years she was Head of School of Surveying and Planning.
She is also a visiting academic to City, London and Reading Universities.
She holds an initial degree and PhD from the University of Reading and is a
Fellow of the RICS. Sarah is an active, widely published researcher and
public speaker across many aspects of the sustainability in the built
environment/ sustainable property and higher education and she has
extensive research experience and among the organisations for whom she has
undertaken research are the UK Government, the RICS and the Green
Construction Board. She has published several books, the latest, published
in 2015 was Developing Property Sustainably, co-authored with Sara
Wilkinson and Pernille Christensen.
Sarah sits on the editorial board of several leading international property
journals and she is also Joint Executive Officer of the Council of Heads of
the Built Environment, which is the representative body for the Built
Environment Heads of Department of UK Universities. In addition to her
academic work she is also very active in the Professional body, currently
being an elected member of their Governing Body and nominated member of the
Global and UK Valuation Boards. Additionally she has been a property
advisor the Property Working Group of the United Nations Environment
Programme's Finance Initiative and she also currently advises the Ethical
Property Foundation in relation to their Fairplace Award which is aimed at
driving 'triple bottom line' sustainability into workplace property
management.
Norm Miller is a Professor and the Ernest W. Hahn Chair of Real Estate Finance at the
University of San Diego where he has been since the fall of 2007. He has several dozen
highly cited papers on sustainability, workplace trends, housing, valuation and forecasting.
For much of his academic career he was at the University of Cincinnati as Academic and Real
Estate Center Director with one year visits at DePaul University and the University of Hawaii
and three years at the University of Georgia where he started his career. He received his
Ph.D. in Finance from the Ohio State University. He is active on the Editorial Board of
several national/international journals and a past President of the American Real Estate
Society. Known for his pioneering work on the economics of green and sustainable real
estate, he was the founding Editor of the Journal of Sustainable Real Estate, see
www.josre.org. Dr. Miller worked as V.P. of Analytics at CoStar, and is a research principal
with Collateral Analytics, see www.collateralanalytics.com. He is also on the advisory boards
of Pathfinders, Measurabl, Surefield and Verdani. His book with David Geltner of MIT "
Commercial Real Estate Analysis and Investment" is in its third edition and is the leading
graduate real estate textbook in the world. He is currently a Homer Hoyt Land Use Institute
Faculty and Board member, where he is involved with some premier thought leaders among
academics and industry Professionals in a think tank setting.
