Energy Efficiency and the Future of Real Estate

This book explores how energy efficiency is a major component in the development of sustainable real estate. Efficiency is one of the most frequently-mentioned aspects of government policies for green building design in the United States and around the world. There has been a significant amount of effort devoted to the creation of green practices in real estate, including building construction, building assessment, city planning, investment, governmental regulation and policies, and industrial development. One of the key emphases of the above activities is energy efficiency, thus it is crucial for researchers and readers to have a comprehensive overview of the topic, as this book provides.

N. Edward Coulson is Professor of Economics and Public Policy in the Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. He is also Co-Editor of the Journal of Regional Science, and he served as President of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association in 2016.

Clifford A. Lipscomb is Vice Chair and Co-Managing Director at Greenfield Advisors. He is the Chair of the American Real Estate Society’s Practitioner Research Award committee, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Real Estate Literature, and a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

Yongsheng Wang is Associate Professor of Economics and Director of Financial Economics at Washington and Jefferson College, USA. His research focuses on energy economics and real estate economics.