Sustainable Preservation in the Context of Building Certification Systems

Abstract

In recent years, as a result of an increase in the world's population, the development of technology, globalization, and an intense rivalry environment, the consumption of natural resources has been increasing rapidly. Correspondingly, one of the most devastating consequences of increasing environmental problems is global warming caused by pollution of the ecological environment, and the other is the risks it carries for future generations as a result of wastage and misuse of resource utilization (Günaydın, 2011). In the face of increasing environmental problems, people have oriented toward environmentally friendly attitudes. Parallel with it, sustainable approaches that support green and new policies have started to be produced to reduce the damage done to the environment. Environmental problems, which were previously considered at the national level, have been carried to the international level since the 1970s, with the effect of the energy crisis. The publication of the “Limits to Growth Report” in 1972 and the UN Environment Conference held in Stockholm were the first global steps taken in this area. In the Brundtland Commission in 1987 in the report which is called "Our Common Future", the concept of sustainable development has been defined as "the ability of future generations to meet the needs of today's generation without jeopardizing their ability to meet their own needs" (Aksu, 2011; Tutkun & İmamoğlu, 2015).