Sustainable Retail Development: New Success Strategies

✍ Scribed by Jerry Yudelson (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 227
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Sustainable Retail Development" addresses the emerging issue of green retail buildings and retail development that will grow significantly in importance over the next half-decade, a trend seen throughout the developed world. This volume is a practical and comprehensive guide to greening retail real estate, including green building and marketing strategies, corporate sustainability programs and features a 10-point "action program" for greening any retail real estate portfolio.

"Sustainable Retail Development" should be essential reading for professionals in design, construction and operations of shopping centers and retail stores. Well illustrated, this volume features over 30 green retail developments from North America, Europe, South America, Asia and Australia, as well as interviews with 25 leading industry experts.

Leading green building expert Jerry Yudelson presents a solid business case for greening retail real estate and shows how leading companies are advancing sustainable retail businesses.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Sustainability Matters....Pages 1-19
Green Buildings Around the World....Pages 21-40
What Is a Green Building?....Pages 41-65
The Business Case for Green Retail....Pages 67-77
Costs of Greening Buildings and Developments....Pages 79-86
Solar Power....Pages 87-98
Greening Shopping Centers....Pages 99-111
Greening Retail Buildings....Pages 113-128
Greening Retail Interiors....Pages 129-135
Operating Green Retail Spaces....Pages 137-155
Marketing Sustainable Retail Development....Pages 157-165
Sustainable Retail Organizations....Pages 167-177
The Ten-Point Program for Retail Sustainability....Pages 179-187
Back Matter....Pages 189-215

✦ Subjects

Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Environment, general; Business/Management Science, general; Building Types and Functions; Building Construction, HVAC, Refrigeration; Engineering Design