Transforming markets in the built environment adapting to climate change /

There is an urgent need to build human capacity to make the often vulnerable and exposed buildings and communities we live and work in more resilient to the changing social, economic and physical environments around us. Extensive research has been done over the last decades on both mitigation and ad...

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Other Authors: Roaf, Susan.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: London : Earthscan, 2010.
Series:Architectural Science Review Series.
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Summary:There is an urgent need to build human capacity to make the often vulnerable and exposed buildings and communities we live and work in more resilient to the changing social, economic and physical environments around us. Extensive research has been done over the last decades on both mitigation and adaptation to climate change in the built environment, but the outputs of much of this research have failed to result in the wider uptake of effective greenhouse gas emission reduction solutions. This volume introduces credible 'fresh thinking' on how this may be done. For the first time an emerging ge.
Item Description:"Architectural science review 53(1), February 2010."
"Special issue."
Physical Description:1 online resource (140 p.) : ill., maps.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781849774840 (electronic bk.)
1849774846 (electronic bk.)
9781849710886 (Cloth)
1849710880 (Cloth)