TY - GEN
T1 - Understanding Stakeholders' Concerns of Age-Friendly Communities at Briefing Stage
T2 - 2020 International Conference on Construction and Real Estate Management: Intelligent Construction and Sustainable Buildings, ICCREM 2020
AU - Xiang, Liqun
AU - Yu, Tao
AU - Tan, Yongtao
AU - Jin, Xin
AU - Shen, Geoffrey
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 American Society of Civil Engineers.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The rapid ageing society in the urbanised world urges cities to make changes and be well prepared for challenges arise. Promoting age-friendly communities (AFCs) will not only be helpful to achieve WHO's sustainable goals, but also shape cities more inclusive and equitable places. For developing countries like China, stakeholders face more challenges as medical care, the welfare system, and urban-rural integration issues have not been well addressed. Therefore, understanding stakeholders' concerns at the briefing stage will be helpful to promote active collaborations. This study first reviews stakeholders and their roles to play in AFCs projects, critical factors of building AFCs, and the importance of the briefing stage; then applies a two-mode social network to analyse relationships of stakeholders and critical factors based on the evaluation metrices generated from three rounds of focus group meetings. According to the results, specific features of Chinese stakeholders and critical factors, challenges of promoting AFCs under Chinese background, and potential strategies to mitigate stakeholders' conflicts at the briefing stage are discussed. The outcomes of this study can serve as references to understand relationships between stakeholders and critical factors, which may, therefore, improve the AFCs constructing management processes in urban China.
AB - The rapid ageing society in the urbanised world urges cities to make changes and be well prepared for challenges arise. Promoting age-friendly communities (AFCs) will not only be helpful to achieve WHO's sustainable goals, but also shape cities more inclusive and equitable places. For developing countries like China, stakeholders face more challenges as medical care, the welfare system, and urban-rural integration issues have not been well addressed. Therefore, understanding stakeholders' concerns at the briefing stage will be helpful to promote active collaborations. This study first reviews stakeholders and their roles to play in AFCs projects, critical factors of building AFCs, and the importance of the briefing stage; then applies a two-mode social network to analyse relationships of stakeholders and critical factors based on the evaluation metrices generated from three rounds of focus group meetings. According to the results, specific features of Chinese stakeholders and critical factors, challenges of promoting AFCs under Chinese background, and potential strategies to mitigate stakeholders' conflicts at the briefing stage are discussed. The outcomes of this study can serve as references to understand relationships between stakeholders and critical factors, which may, therefore, improve the AFCs constructing management processes in urban China.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85108168562&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1061/9780784483237.075
DO - 10.1061/9780784483237.075
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85108168562
T3 - ICCREM 2020: Intelligent Construction and Sustainable Buildings - Proceedings of the International Conference on Construction and Real Estate Management 2020
SP - 639
EP - 650
BT - ICCREM 2020
A2 - Wang, Yaowu
A2 - Olofsson, Thomas
A2 - Shen, Geoffrey Q. P.
PB - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Y2 - 24 August 2020 through 25 August 2020
ER -