Green Jobs: The Present and Future of the Building Industry. Evolution Analysis

Noelia Araújo, Lucília Cardoso, Jose Antonio Fraiz Brea and Arthur Filipe De Araújo
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Noelia Araújo: Faculty of Business and Tourism, University of Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain
Lucília Cardoso: Faculty of Business and Tourism, University of Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain
Jose Antonio Fraiz Brea: Faculty of Business and Tourism, University of Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain
Arthur Filipe De Araújo: Department of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering and Tourism, University of Aveiro, 3810193 Aveiro, Portugal

Social Sciences, 2018, vol. 7, issue 12, 1-17

Abstract: In the recent context of environmental sustainability awareness, a new trend has emerged in the construction industry: the use of green energy and green jobs. Such practices are particularly frequent in the mentioned sector, precisely because it is amongst those with the greatest energy use and workforce demand. Such a trend characterizes the green building phenomenon, on which the present work aims at achieving a deeper understanding of by analyzing its evolution, examining the most studied topics, and verifying whether they are related to current studies. To this end, a literature review of the most recent works, as well as a bibliometric analysis of papers published in the Scopus database, have been carried out. Next, the collected material was subjected to a deductive content analysis, followed by an Intraclass Correlation Analysis. Findings point to a convergence of the most studied topics within the three analyzed fields (green building, green jobs, and renewable energy), which are also strongly correlated.

Keywords: green building; green jobs; renewable energy; Scopus; correlation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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