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A New Horizon for Construction Waste Management Research from a Complex Adaptive System Perspective

In: Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate

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  • Zhikun Ding

    (Shenzhen University)

  • Jinchuang Wu

    (Shenzhen University)

  • Jiayuan Wang

    (Shenzhen University)

  • Hongtao Wang

    (LID)

Abstract

Besides significant contributions to the economy development, the construction industry has been generating a large amount of solid waste, which exerts a great adverse impact on the environment. In the last decades, construction waste management (CWM) gradually draws extensive attention worldwide. This study firstly presents a review of the CWM research topics and approaches. Then some of their shortcomings are demonstrated, such as (1) lack of a system analysis in view of CWM as a complex adaptive system (CAS); (2) neglection of the heterogeneity, autonomy, adaptability of the stakeholders and the interactions between them; (3) a dominant top-down research paradigm cannot provide a good interpretation for the relationship between microscopic agents’ behavior and macro-policy. Thirdly, a complexity analysis of CWM is conducted with an introduction of CAS and a theoretical analysis of CWM about its CAS characteristics. Finally, it reveals the great potential of agent-based modeling to address CWM issues from bottom-up.

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  • Zhikun Ding & Jinchuang Wu & Jiayuan Wang & Hongtao Wang, 2014. "A New Horizon for Construction Waste Management Research from a Complex Adaptive System Perspective," Springer Books, in: Donglang Yang & Yanjun Qian (ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 581-592, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-44916-1_56
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-44916-1_56
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    1. Zhikun Ding & Wenyan Gong & Shenghan Li & Zezhou Wu, 2018. "System Dynamics versus Agent-Based Modeling: A Review of Complexity Simulation in Construction Waste Management," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(7), pages 1-13, July.

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