A System Model and An Innovation Approach toward Sustainable Housing Renovation

Ju Liu, Bo Bengtsson, Helena Bohman and Karin Staffansson Pauli
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Ju Liu: Department of Urban Studies, Malmö University, Malmö SE-205 06, Sweden
Bo Bengtsson: Department of Urban Studies, Malmö University and Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala SE-751 05, Sweden
Helena Bohman: Department of Urban Studies, Malmö University, Malmö SE-205 06, Sweden
Karin Staffansson Pauli: Department of Urban Studies, Malmö University, Malmö SE-205 06, Sweden

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 3, 1-16

Abstract: Housing renovation is a common concern to owners, tenants and to society at large. In addition to the high economic costs, the implementation of housing renovation usually have a long-term impact on the society and the built environment. This is a theoretical paper that develops a system model for understanding sustainable housing renovation as a system phenomenon which has multiple sustainability goals, complicated dynamic processes, diverse actors, and a sophisticated institutional environment. It identifies the key challenges of a sustainable housing renovation system, namely the conflicting sustainability goals and the conflicting stakeholder interests. To address these two challenges, the paper suggests an innovation approach in which the process of innovation (linear versus organic) and the typology of innovation (product versus process and business versus social) toward sustainable housing renovation are discussed.

Keywords: sustainability; housing renovation; conflicting sustainability goals; conflicting stakeholder interests; system; innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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