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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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Earthscan,
2010.
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| Series: | Architectural Science Review Series.
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| Online Access: | ebrary View fulltext via EzAccess MyiLibrary Ebook Library |
Table of Contents:
- Transforming markets in the built environment and adapting to climate change: an introduction / Sue Roaf ... [et al.]
- Exploring a quality of life, self-determined / David Wadley
- Pragmatic ecologies: situating sustainable building / Simon Guy
- The global predicament: radical implications for design / Ted Trainer
- Values and sustainable lifestyles / Birgitta Gatersleben ... [et al.]
- Understanding barriers to social adaptation: are we targeting the right concerns? / Silva Larson
- Cooling exposure in hot humid climates: are occupants "addicted"? / Christhina Cândido ... [et al.]
- Twentieth century standards for thermal comfort: promoting high energy buildings / Sue Roaf ... [et al.]
- Twenty first century standards for thermal comfort: fostering low carbon building design and operation / Paul Tuohy ... [et al.]
- Automate and motivate: behaviour-reliant building technology solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions / J.K. Ward, J. Wall and S.D. White
- Hybrid buildings: a pathway to carbon neutral housing / Peter W. Newton and Selwyn N. Tucker
- The role of rainwater tanks in Australia in the twenty first century / Ted Gardner and Alison Vieritz
- Social networks save energy: optimizing energy consumption in an ecovillage via agent-based simulation / Majd Hawasly, David Corne and Sue Roaf.