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Sustainable concrete in Asia: Approaches and barriers considering regional context
| Title: | Sustainable concrete in Asia: Approaches and barriers considering regional context |
| Authors: | Henry, Michael Browse this author | | Kato, Yoshitaka Browse this author |
| Keywords: | Sustainability | | Asia | | Concrete | | Institutional systems | | Resources | | Stakeholders | | Socio-economic conditions | | Climate |
| Issue Date: | 30-Sep-2014 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Journal Title: | Construction and Building Materials |
| Volume: | 67 |
| Issue: | Part C |
| Start Page: | 399 |
| End Page: | 404 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2013.12.074 |
| Abstract: | Asia is home to a diversity of socio-economic and environmental conditions which directly affect concrete-related manufacturing and construction. The implementation of sustainable concrete in Asian countries is thus highly dependent on their regional conditions, but the regional context of sustainable concrete needs to be understood in order to connect generalized strategies with actual implementation. This paper summarizes the results and key findings from previous qualitative investigations carried out in Japan, Thailand, S. Korea, Mongolia, and Singapore, and compares the approaches and barriers to sustainable concrete in order to extract regional issues and their relationship with sustainable concrete. The results highlight the importance of institutional systems, economic factors, resource availability and recycling, geography and climate, technology level, stakeholder roles and relations, and social factors when considering the implementation of strategies for sustainable concrete in Asia. |
| Type: | article (author version) |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/57546 |
| Appears in Collections: | 工学院・工学研究院 (Graduate School of Engineering / Faculty of Engineering) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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Submitter: HENRY Michael Ward
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