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  • Constructing a Consumer-Focused Industry

    Cracks, Cladding and Crisis in the Residential Construction Sector

    Series series Social Value in the Built Environment
    The old saying ‘safe as houses’ is being challenged around the world like never before. Over recent decades homeowners have experienced the devastating effects of defects like asbestos, leaky buildings, structural failings, and more recently the combustible cladding crisis. The provision of safe and secure housing is a critical starting point to ensure that social value can be delivered in the ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Urban Sustainability Transitions

    Australian Cases- International Perspectives

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book contributes to current debates regarding purposive transitions to sustainable cities, providing an accessible but critical exploration of sustainability transitions in urban settings. We have now entered the urban century, which is not without its own challenges, as discussed in the preceding book of this series. Urbanization is accompanied by a myriad of complex and overlapping ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • Energy Performance in the Australian Built Environment

    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book examines energy efficiency in the Australian built environment and presents current developments with a particular focus on the temperate setting of Victoria state. It is divided into four main parts discussing policies, climate, and carbon footprint and presenting case studies on the energy performance and indoor environmental quality of various building types. The book is intended for ... Leer más

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  • A Transition to Sustainable Housing

    Progress and Prospects for a Low Carbon Housing Future

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the environmental, social, and financial challenges of housing provision, and the urgent need for a sustainable housing transition. The authors explore how market failures have impacted the scaling up of sustainable housing and the various policy attempts to address this. Going beyond an environmental focus, the book explores a range of housing-related challenges ... Leer más

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    Sustainable Market Transformation Strategies to Understand and Tackle the Big and Complex Sustainability Challenges of Our Generation

    We are at the beginning of the sustainability era. The biggest challenge of our generation is to reach the Sustainable Development Goals. For this we must be willing to understand and change the root causes that create these challenges in the first place. The system itself needs to change. But how to do that?This ground-breaking book Changing the Game reveals the missing insights and strategies to ... Leer más

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  • Enough Is Enough

    Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources

    Strategies for transitioning to a steady-state economy that maximizes long-term well-being for all people.We're overusing the earth's finite resources, and yet excessive consumption is failing to improve our lives. In Enough Is Enough, Rob Dietz and Dan O'Neill lay out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth—an economy where the goal is not more but enough ... Leer más

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  • Managing Health and Safety at Work

    Series series Institute of Learning & Management Super Series
    Super series are a set of workbooks to accompany the flexible learning programme specifically designed and developed by the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) to support their Level 3 Certificate in First Line Management. The learning content is also closely aligned to the Level 3 S/NVQ in Management. The series consists of 35 workbooks. Each book will map on to a course unit (35 books ... Leer más

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  • True Wealth

    How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich, Ecologically Light, Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy

    A groundbreaking statement about ecological decline, suggesting a radical change in how we think about consumer goods, value, and ways to live.In True Wealth , economist Juliet B. Schor rejects the sacrifice message, with the insight that social innovations and new technology can simultaneously enhance our lives and protect the planet. Schor shares examples of urban farmers, DIY renovators, and ... Leer más

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  • Wellbeing Economy

    Success in a World Without Growth

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  • Construction Management

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  • The Resilience Imperative

    Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy

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  • Five Times Faster

    Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change

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