A New Horizon for Construction Waste Management Research from a Complex Adaptive System Perspective

Zhikun Ding (), Jinchuang Wu (), Jiayuan Wang () and Hongtao Wang
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Zhikun Ding: Shenzhen University
Jinchuang Wu: Shenzhen University
Jiayuan Wang: Shenzhen University
Hongtao Wang: LID

Chapter Chapter 56 in Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate, 2014, pp 581-592 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Besides significant contributions to the economy development, the construction industry has been generating a large amount of solid waste, which exerts a great adverse impact on the environment. In the last decades, construction waste management (CWM) gradually draws extensive attention worldwide. This study firstly presents a review of the CWM research topics and approaches. Then some of their shortcomings are demonstrated, such as (1) lack of a system analysis in view of CWM as a complex adaptive system (CAS); (2) neglection of the heterogeneity, autonomy, adaptability of the stakeholders and the interactions between them; (3) a dominant top-down research paradigm cannot provide a good interpretation for the relationship between microscopic agents’ behavior and macro-policy. Thirdly, a complexity analysis of CWM is conducted with an introduction of CAS and a theoretical analysis of CWM about its CAS characteristics. Finally, it reveals the great potential of agent-based modeling to address CWM issues from bottom-up.

Keywords: Construction waste management; Complex adaptive system; Agent-based modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-44916-1_56

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