Rydin, Y; Turcu, C; (2013) Key Trends in Policy for Low-Energy Built Environments: a 20-year Review. Local Environment: the international journal of justice and sustainability , 19 (5) 560- 566. 10.1080/13549839.2013.810837.

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In a review of policy frameworks for low-energy buildings and built environments over 20 years in England, the paper identifies a transition from the early years when the connection between energy and the built environment was only just beginning to be recognised, through to a more coordinated approach to carbon and buildings in the period to 2010. It identifies fives key trends: a greater reliance on regulation; the growing importance of the retrofit agenda; more tightly targeted subsidies; more finely tuned market-based instruments to shape and structures energy efficiency and decentralised renewable energy markets; and a shift from the dominance of market rationality towards a more nuanced understanding of how inter-related change in energy systems and built environments is achieved.

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