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activities being realised, can organise their present and future activities more
successfully.
To design and achieve effective built environment life cycle with focus on
climate change mitigation a complex analysis of its stages as well as stakeholders,
their aims and potentialities are needed. The effect of micro, meso and macro
environmental factors should also be taken into account.
Dozens of millions of built environment life cycle with focus on climate change
mitigation and adaptation alternative versions can be obtained. The diversity of
solutions available contributes to more accurate evaluation of economical, polit-
ical, technological, emotional, climatic and other conditions, risk exposure, as well
as making the project cheaper and better satisfying different stakeholder's
requirements. This also leads to better satisfaction of the needs of all parties
involved in the project design and realisation.
Various stakeholders are involved in the life cycle of a climate change miti-
gation, trying to satisfy their needs and affecting its efficiency. The level of the
efficiency of life cycle of a climate change mitigation depends on a number of
variables at three levels: micro, meso and macro level.
The problem is how to define an efficient built environment life cycle with
focus on climate change mitigation and adaptation when a lot of various stake-
holders are involved, the alternative project versions come to hundreds million and
the efficiency changes with the alterations in the environment conditions and the
constituent parts of the process in question. Moreover, the realisation of some
objectives seems more rational from the economic perspective thought from the
other qualitative perspectives they have various significance. Therefore, it is
considered that the efficiency of a sustainable built environment life cycle depends
on the rationality of its stages as well as on the ability to satisfy the needs of the
stakeholders and the rational character of micro, meso and macro environment
conditions.
Formalised presentation of the research shows how changes in the micro, meso
and macro environment and the extent to which the goals pursued by various
stakeholders are satisfied cause corresponding changes in the value and utility
degree of a sustainable built environment life cycle. With this in mind, it is
possible to solve the problem of optimisation concerning satisfaction of the needs
at reasonable expenditures. This requires the analysis of built environment life
cycle with focus on climate change mitigation and adaptation versions allowing to
find an optimal combination of goals pursued and finances available.
The research object is a built environment life cycle with focus on climate
change mitigation and adaptation, stakeholders striving to attain their goals and
micro, meso and macro environment making an integral whole.
Model of Built Environment Life Cycle Process for Climate Change Mitigation
and Adaptation was developed with the goal of integrating different quantitative
and qualitative aspects of the process over the life of the climate change mitiga-
tion. This six-stage model is presented in brief heretofore (see Fig.
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