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Measuring Biodiversity for Built Environment Rating Systems
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Fay, MR, Measuring Biodiversity for Built Environment Rating Systems, Rethinking Development: Are we producing a people oriented habitat?, 9 - 12 November 2003, Santiago de Chile, pp. H-4. (2003) [Refereed Conference Paper]
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Abstract
Biodiversity, the variety of life on earth, is required for the health of the natural
environment. Scientific evidence demonstrates that biodiversity depletion and loss can result in
social and economic, as well as environmental, collapse. Australia has serious environmental
problems resulting from human activities over the past 200 years.
The Australian government is developing a performance-based system to rate the overall
environmental performance of buildings during their operation. Known as the National Australian
Building Environmental Rating System (NABERS), it is intended to provide rational assessments,
based as much as possible on actual performance measurements and as little as possible on
prescriptive indicators.
Measuring the biodiversity of building sites presents unique problems since current building rating
systems either use prescriptive indicators or exclude them. Agreed standardised measurement
protocols for this purpose do not exist. However, scientists have developed measurement methods
capable of being adapted to this purpose. Protocols capable of rating built environment impacts on
biodiversity are presented and discussed.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
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Keywords: | biodiversity, building environmental rating systems, Australia |
Research Division: | Built Environment and Design |
Research Group: | Architecture |
Research Field: | Architecture not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Construction |
Objective Group: | Other construction |
Objective Field: | Other construction not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Fay, MR (Professor Roger Fay) |
ID Code: | 27741 |
Year Published: | 2003 |
Deposited By: | Architecture |
Deposited On: | 2003-08-01 |
Last Modified: | 2010-06-07 |
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