From three-pillars to three-environments: Shifting the paradigm of sustainability in civil and construction engineering

IF 5.3 Q2 ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL
Xiaomei Wang , Andrew South , Clifton Farnsworth , Brett Hashimoto
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This research explores the usage of sustainability in literature and presents ‘three environments’ for addressing sustainability in the Civil and Construction Engineering (CCE) disciplines. Scholars have increasingly studied sustainability and sustainable development across CCE disciplines as the importance of sustainability awareness and action in society has increased. However, the vastness of its conceptual breadth and depth in CCE research is difficult to holistically evaluate. As a result, CCE researchers often focus on specific aspects of sustainability applied to discrete contexts, or address sustainability in broad aspirational terms and guiding motivations. This research utilized a rigorous analytical corpus linguistics approach for investigating CCE-based research published between 1989 and 2021 to capture a full view of the academic discourse surrounding sustainability in CCE. The research employed collocational network analysis to enable an expansive and comprehensive study of the concept of sustainability and how it is addressed by CCE researchers. The authors created a 25,920,583-word corpus from papers published in top CCE journals related to sustainability. Significant collocates of the word sustainability were then identified using collocational analysis, and their relationships mapped through collocational network analysis to uncover dominant research areas in CCE. Observations from over 30 years of sustainability research suggests that the CCE disciplines have largely anchored to generalized notions of sustainability, such as ‘the three pillars of sustainability.’ However, deeper analysis provides a more nuanced view. We propose an alternate paradigm of three interconnected environments where CCE professionals operate, highlight criteria for decision-making, and identify primary actions for sustainability.

从 "三支柱 "到 "三环境":转变土木与建筑工程的可持续性模式
本研究探讨了可持续发展在文献中的用法,并提出了在土木与建筑工程(CCE)学科中解决可持续发展问题的 "三种环境"。随着可持续发展意识和行动在社会中的重要性不断提高,学者们对 CCE 各学科中的可持续发展和可持续发展的研究也日益增多。然而,在 CCE 的研究中,其概念的广度和深度很难进行整体评估。因此,幼儿保育和教育研究人员往往侧重于将可持续发展的特定方面应用于不同的环境,或者从广泛的愿望和指导动机的角度来探讨可持续发展。本研究采用严格的语料分析语言学方法,调查 1989 年至 2021 年间发表的基于 CCE 的研究成果,以全面了解 CCE 中围绕可持续发展的学术话语。研究采用了词组网络分析,对可持续发展的概念以及 CCE 研究人员如何处理这一概念进行了广泛而全面的研究。作者从发表在顶级幼教期刊上与可持续发展相关的论文中创建了一个 25,920,583 字的语料库。然后通过搭配分析确定了可持续性一词的重要搭配,并通过搭配网络分析绘制了它们之间的关系图,从而发现了 CCE 中的主导研究领域。从 30 多年的可持续发展研究中观察到,幼儿保育和教育学科在很大程度上遵循了可持续发展的一般概念,如 "可持续发展的三大支柱"。然而,更深入的分析提供了更细致入微的观点。我们提出了另一种范式,即由三个相互关联的环境组成,让幼儿保育专业人员在其中开展工作,强调决策标准,并确定促进可持续发展的主要行动。
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Cleaner Engineering and Technology
Cleaner Engineering and Technology Engineering-Engineering (miscellaneous)
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