Article: Latin America sustainable building finance knowledge sharing Journal: Latin American Journal of Management for Sustainable Development (LAJMSD) 2014 Vol.1 No.2/3 pp.213 - 228 Abstract: Sustainable development is one of the hot topics in modern world. Nevertheless, installing sustainable green features such as solar panels, rainwater collection plant, wind power turbines are not costless. Nevertheless, many countries in Latin America are not rich. Therefore, sustainable building finance and its knowledge sharing becomes important. The previous research in this area, however, is very limited. This paper tries to fill this gap via content analysis of journal article databases. We hypothesise that: 1) since many of countries in Latin America are developing countries, there is a lack of green finance source from the government; 2) as the publication time of journal articles is substantially slower than World Wide Web, there is substantially less articles in academic journal databases as compared to the websites; 3) there is only a limited number of articles that are in English. Majority are in Spanish. Language remains one of the major barriers in knowledge sharing for those who do not know Spanish. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Latin America sustainable building finance knowledge sharing

Authors: Rita Yi Man Li; Hiu Yan Tsoi

Addresses: Sustainable Real Estate Research Center, Department of Economics and Finance, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, LG213, Academic Building, Hong Kong, China; School of Natural and Built Environments, University of South Australia, BJ3-08, City East Campus, Level 3, Bonython Jubilee Building, North Terrace, Adelaide, Australia ' Department of Economics and Finance, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong, China

Abstract: Sustainable development is one of the hot topics in modern world. Nevertheless, installing sustainable green features such as solar panels, rainwater collection plant, wind power turbines are not costless. Nevertheless, many countries in Latin America are not rich. Therefore, sustainable building finance and its knowledge sharing becomes important. The previous research in this area, however, is very limited. This paper tries to fill this gap via content analysis of journal article databases. We hypothesise that: 1) since many of countries in Latin America are developing countries, there is a lack of green finance source from the government; 2) as the publication time of journal articles is substantially slower than World Wide Web, there is substantially less articles in academic journal databases as compared to the websites; 3) there is only a limited number of articles that are in English. Majority are in Spanish. Language remains one of the major barriers in knowledge sharing for those who do not know Spanish.

Keywords: sustainable development; sustainability; sustainable finance; Latin America; knowledge sharing; content analysis; literature review; green finance; language barriers.

DOI: 10.1504/LAJMSD.2014.065483

Latin American Journal of Management for Sustainable Development, 2014 Vol.1 No.2/3, pp.213 - 228

Received: 04 Jan 2014
Accepted: 17 May 2014
Published online: 12 Nov 2014 *

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