瑞典建筑行业的环境考虑:成本、制度设置和信息的作用。

Anders Isaksson, Henrik Linderoth
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摘要

尽管越来越多的证据表明,成为一家环境友好型公司不仅有利于环境,而且具有长期的经济意义,但向更可持续的社会过渡的速度极其缓慢。建筑业也是如此。在战略层面上,随着环境管理人员等角色的设立和先进环境管理制度的实施,环境问题得到了更多的关注。但是,由于没有对环境挑战采取全面的办法,采用的速度很慢,部分原因是人们认为,给予超过法律要求的环境考虑水平只会增加成本,而不会带来相应的财政利益。这就提出了本研究旨在回答的以下问题:影响决策者采用环境考虑因素的最重要因素是什么?为此,它分析了从瑞典建筑行业决策者收集的问卷数据,并对特定建筑和建筑公司进行了深入的案例研究。结果表明,决策者认为信息和制度限制了环境考虑的采用。缺乏信息被认为是环境考虑的最大障碍。如果需要利用关于客户和最终用户通过采用环境考虑而获得的经济利益的信息和知识,则必须通过合同形式予以支持,这种合同形式放弃对建筑物投资成本的短期关注,转而关注长期运营和维护成本和利益。
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Environmental considerations in the Swedish building and construction industry: the role of costs, institutional setting, and information.

Despite increasing evidence that being an environment-friendly company not only benefits the environment but also makes long-term economic sense, the transition to a more sustainable society is extremely slow. This is true of the building and construction industry as well. At a strategic level, environmental issues have received more attention with the establishment of roles such as environmental managers and implementation of advanced environmental management systems. However, adoption has been slow in the absence of a holistic approach to environmental challenges, partly reinforced by a perception that giving more than the legally required level of environmental consideration will only add to costs without corresponding financial benefits. This raises the following question that the study aims to answer: What is the most important factor influencing decision makers' in adopting environmental considerations? To this end, it analysed questionnaire data collected from decision makers in the Swedish construction industry along with an in-depth case study of a specific building and construction company. The results show that decision makers perceive informational and institutional constraints on the adoption of environmental considerations. Lack of information is perceived as the biggest obstacle to environmental considerations. If information and knowledge about clients' and end users' financial benefits from adopting environmental considerations need to be exploited, they have to be supported by contractual forms that discard a short-term focus on the investment costs of a building in favour of a focus on long-term operational and maintenance costs and benefits.

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