Global Warming and the Built Environment
The role of the built environment on global warming is seen to be of increasing relevance. In this book, contributors of international repute offer a wide perspectivet on the subject. This new paperback edition offers insights and techniques regarding design and management of buildings and urban settlement and discusses the issues of accountability and responsibility.
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Global Warming and the Built Environment
The role of the built environment on global warming is seen to be of increasing relevance. In this book, contributors of international repute offer a wide perspectivet on the subject. This new paperback edition offers insights and techniques regarding design and management of buildings and urban settlement and discusses the issues of accountability and responsibility.
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Global Warming and the Built Environment

Global Warming and the Built Environment

by D.K. Prasad
Global Warming and the Built Environment

Global Warming and the Built Environment

by D.K. Prasad

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The role of the built environment on global warming is seen to be of increasing relevance. In this book, contributors of international repute offer a wide perspectivet on the subject. This new paperback edition offers insights and techniques regarding design and management of buildings and urban settlement and discusses the issues of accountability and responsibility.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781135814885
Publisher: CRC Press
Publication date: 06/27/2005
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 16 MB
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About the Author

D.K. Prasad, R. Samuels

Table of Contents

1: Environmental accountability: users, buildings and energy; 2: Environmental auditing and the built environment; 3: Human use of renewable energy to improve the global environment in the post-Brundtland era; 4: The greenhouse effect and future urban development; 5: Urban design, transportation and greenhouse *; 6: Sustainable development, energy policy issues and greenhouse; 7: Energy and architectural form; 8: Environmentally benign architecture: beyond passive; 9: Energy efficiency and the non-residential building sector; 10: Principles of energy efficient residential design; 11: Technological options and sustainable energy welfare; 12: Materials selection and energy efficiency
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