Sustainable retirement living: what matters?
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2012
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Barker, J.
Xia, B.
Zuo, J.
Zillante, G.
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Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 2012; 12(1):56-61
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Jake Barker, Bo Xia, Jian Zou and George Zillante
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There is a growing demand for sustainable retirement villages in Australia due to an increasing number of ageing population and public acceptance of sustainable development. This research aims to gain a better understanding of retirees’ understanding about sustainable retirement living and their attitudes towards sustainable developments via a questionnaire survey approach. The results showed that the current residents of retirement villages are generally very conscious of unsustainable resource consumption and would like their residences and community to be more environmentally friendly and energy efficient. The cost of energy supply is a concern to majority of respondents. However there is a certain level of concerns from residents too on the extra cost of going green in their residence. Education is required to residents about recycling household waste and how to use available facilities. A better understanding of retirees’ awareness and attitudes towards sustainability issues helps to improve the sustainable developments of retirement villages in the future.
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Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Australasian Universities Building Educators Association, AUBEA, 2012;. pp.1-7
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