Review of the sustainable built environment in 1998–2015

Abstract

A city is a complex physical and social phenomenon that is under constant development and undergoes quantitative and qualitative changes. The welfare of the whole society depends on the sustainability of the built environment. The article presents a review of the literature on the sustainable built environment, which was made on the basis of the Thomson Reuters Web of Science Core Collection database. The analysed articles were published between 1998 and 2015. The analysis of the number of publications was made according to years of publication, countries, research areas and the Web of Science categories. 31 article and review document type were selected for a detailed analysis by three key Web of Science categories: environmental science, environmental studies, and construction and building technology.

Keywords:

• sustainable built environment
• environmental science
• environmental studies
• construction and building technology
• literature review

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Ieva Ubarte

Ieva UBARTE is a PhD student of Civil Engineering at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. She is a Junior Researcher at the Research Institute of Smart Building Technologies. Research interests: sustainable built environment, life cycle, safe and healthy house, intelligent decision support systems.

Oleg Kaplinski

Oleg KAPLIŃSKI is Professor of CE at Faculty of Architecture (IAP), Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland. He lectures in economics and organization of the investment process, as well as theory and principles of work places design. The author of 240 publications. Doctor Honoris Causa of VGTU (1996). Member of the CE Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His current research focuses on: integral management, integral design, risk management, theory of decision making and research methods in CE and architecture.