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  • Green City Planning and Practices in Asian Cities

    Sustainable Development and Smart Growth in Urban Environments

    Edited by Zhenjiang Shen, Ling Huang, Jente Pai, KuangHui Peng ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Urban planners across the world are faced with sustainable development issues in their work, especially when they are tasked with creating green cities or where sustainable and smart growth in urban settings are set as primary goals. This book introduces green city planning and practices from the three dimensions of green-building innovation, community development and smart city strategies, and ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development

    Approaches for Achieving Sustainable Urban Form in Asian Cities

    Edited by Mitsuhiko Kawakami, Zhen-jiang Shen, Jen-te Pai, Ming Zhang, Xiao-lu Gao ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book attempts to provide insights into the achievement of a sustainable urban form, through spatial planning and implementation; here, we focus on planning experiences at the levels of local cities and some metropolitan areas in Asian countries. This book investigates the impact of planning policy on spatial planning implementation, from multidisciplinary viewpoints encompassing land-use ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

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    by Wolfgang Kinzelbach, Haijing Wang, Yu Li, Lu Wang, Ning Li ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Over-pumping of aquifers is a worldwide problem, mainly caused by agricultural water use. Among its consequences are the falling dry of streams and wetlands, soil subsidence, die-off of phreatophytic vegetation, saline water intrusion, increased pumping cost and loss of storage needed for drought relief.Stopping or reversing the trend requires management interventions. The North China Plain serves ... Read more

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  • Designing High-Density Cities

    For Social and Environmental Sustainability

    Edited by Edward Ng ...
    Compact living is sustainable living. High-density cities can support closer amenities, encourage reduced trip lengths and the use of public transport and therefore reduce transport energy costs and carbon emissions. High-density planning also helps to control the spread of urban suburbs into open lands, improves efficiency in urban infrastructure and services, and results in environmental ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Sustainability, Energy and Architecture

    Case Studies in Realizing Green Buildings

    by Ali Sayigh ...
    This unique volume offers insights from renowned experts in energy efficient building from the world over, providing a multi-faceted overview of the state-of-the-art in energy efficient architecture. It opens by defining what constitutes a sustainable building, suggesting bases for sorely needed benchmarks, then explains the most important techniques and tools available to engineers and architects ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Towards a Sustainable Future - Life Cycle Management

    Challenges and Prospects

    Edited by Zbigniew Stanislaw Klos, Joanna Kalkowska, Jędrzej Kasprzak ...
    This open access book includes a selection of contributions from the Life Cycle Management 2019 Conference (LCM) held in Poznań, Poland, and presents different examples of scientific and practical contributions, showing an incorporation of life cycle approach into the decision processes on strategic and operational level. Special attention is drawn to applications of LCM to target, organize, ... Read more

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  • Building Design, Construction and Performance in Tropical Climates

    Edited by Mike Riley, Alison Cotgrave, Michael Farragher ...
    The design, construction and use of buildings in tropical climates pose specific challenges to built environment professionals. This text seeks to capture some of the key issues of technology and practice in the areas of building design, refurbishment, construction and facilities management in tropical regions.Using a consistent chapter structure throughout, and incorporating the latest research ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Urban Climate Mitigation Techniques

    Edited by Mat Santamouris, Denia Kolokotsa ...
    The urban climate is continuously deteriorating. Urban heat lowers the quality of urban life, increases energy needs, and affects the urban socio-economy. Urban Climate Mitigation Techniques presents steps that can be taken to mitigate this situation through a series of innovative technologies and examples of best practices for the improvement of the urban climate.Including tools for evaluation ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building

    by Marian Keeler, Prasad Vaidya ...
    The Fully Updated, Indispensible Study of Sustainable Design PrinciplesFundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building is the first textbook to merge principles, theory, and practice into an integrated workflow. This book introduces the technologies and processes of sustainable design and shows how to incorporate sustainable concepts at every design stage. This comprehensive primer ... Read more

    $113.99 CAD

  • Designing Buildings for People

    Sustainable liveable architecture

    by Derek Clements-Croome ...
    Our built environments can affect us in many subtle ways. Simply sensing fresh air and natural light or seeing greenery and open space can uplift our mood and improve our wellbeing. But these healthy environments are increasingly difficult to achieve in practice. The vital collaboration between the many people involved in designing and producing buildings is often not achieved. Then there is the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Design and Technological Applications in Sustainable Architecture

    The perspective of China, Japan, Singapore and Thailand

    Edited by Stephen Siu Yu Lau, Junjie Li, Shimeng Hao, Shuai Lu ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume discusses the climate responsiveness of sustainable architecture design and technology in China, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea in recent years, addressing concepts and applications in urban planning, building design, and structural performance evaluation. The four sections of the text cover the theory and implementation of sustainable architecture within various geographic ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Bio-based Building Skin

    by Anna Sandak, Jakub Sandak, Marcin Brzezicki, Andreja Kutnar ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides a compendium of material properties, demonstrates several successful examples of bio-based materials’ application in building facades, and offers ideas for new designs and novel solutions. It features a state-of-the-art review, addresses the latest trends in material selection, assembling systems, and innovative functions of facades in detail. Selected case studies on buildings ... Read more

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