Responsible and Ethical Sourcing in the Construction Industry
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2019) | Viewed by 379
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Many of the global challenges we currently face relate directly to the nature of our consumption of resources. Climate change, resource scarcity, and the impacts of waste demand that we take action and take steps to change the way we choose to live. The construction industry is the world’s largest consumer of raw materials, using 3 billion tonnes of raw materials annually in the manufacture of building products; it is responsible for up to 40% of the global carbon emissions, and therefore has to be at the centre of any efforts to meet such challenges. But striving to address these current impacts is only the start. With an increasingly urbanised population, with perhaps 200,000 people each day moving to urban areas, the impacts associated with the industry are set to continue to grow.
The aim of this Special Issue is to explore how the responsible and ethical sourcing of construction products, materials, and services can help us to meet the challenges outlined above. The scope is deliberately broad so as to reflect the range of potential implications and the, often unintended, consequences associated with construction activity. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- assessment methodologies and tools designed to establish and certify the provenance and embodied impacts of materials and products;
- policy and/or economic instruments that support industry stakeholders in specifying and procuring appropriate materials and products; and
- innovative or novel approaches to waste reuse in construction products, materials, services.
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ethical sourcing
- responsible sourcing
- environmental justice
- construction products, materials, and services
- construction and demolition waste
- embodied impacts
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