Building for a Changing Climate
The Challenge for Construction, Planning and Energy
There is now a practically universal consensus that our climate is changing rapidly, and as a direct result of human activities. While there is extensive debate about what we can do to mitigate the damage we are causing, it is becoming increasingly clear that a large part of our resources will have to be directed towards adapting to new climatic conditions, with talk of survivability replacing sustainability as the new and most pressing priority. Nowhere is this more evident than in the built environment - the stage on which our most important interactions with climatic conditions are played out. In this frank yet pervasively positive book, s…
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- ISBN: 978-1-136-54635-8
- EAN: 9781136546358
- Produktnummer: 13857711
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 8'069 KB
Über den Autor
Peter F. Smith is Special Professor in Sustainable Energy, University of Nottingham, and former Vice President of the RIBA for Sustainable Development. He is the author of many books on architecture and the environment, including Sustainability at the Cutting Edge (Architectural Press/Elsevier 2007).
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