Solutions for Climate Change Challenges in the Built Environment

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4051-9507-2
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 182 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 869 g

Reihe: Innovation in the Built Environment

The multi-disciplinary perspective provided here offers a strategic view on built environment issues and improve understanding of how built environment activities potentially induce global warming and climate change. It also highlights solutions to these challenges.

Solutions to Climate change Challenges in the Built Environment helps develop an appreciation of the diverse themes of the climate change debate across the built environment continuum. A wide perspective is provided through contributions from physical, environmental, social, economic and political scientists. This strategic view on built environment issues will be useful to researchers as well as policy experts and construction practitioners wanting a holistic view.

This book clarifies complex issues around climate change and follows five main themes: climate change experiences; urban landscape development; urban management issues; measurement of impact; and the future. Chapters are written by eminent specialists from both academic and professional backgrounds. The main context for chapters is the developed world but the discussion is widened to incorporate regional issues.

The book will be valuable to researchers and students in all the built environment disciplines, as well as to practitioners involved with the design, construction and maintenance of buildings, and government organisations developing and implementing climate change policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Booth, Colin A

Hammond, Felix N

Lamond, Jessica

Proverbs, David G

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Betriebliches Energie- und Umweltmanagement
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Umweltsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 ? Erfahrungen mit dem Klimawandel.
Part 2 ? Wertung und Messung von Auswirkungen.
Part 3 ? Planung- und Entwicklungsaspekte.
Part 4 ? Entwurf und Bau.
Part 5 ? Management von Anlagen.
Part 6 ? Die Zukunft: Mit dem Klimawandel umgehen.

List of Contributors

Chapter 1 Introductory Insights to Climate Change Challenges

Chapter 2 Climate Change: Nature and Emerging Trends

Chapter 3 Regional Implications

Chapter 4 Urbanization and Climate Change

Chapter 5 Global Political Initiatives and Overtones

Chapter 6 Green Economics Dialogue and the Built Environment

Chapter 7 Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment

Chapter 8 Methods for Valuing Preferences for Environmental and Natural Resources: An Overview

Chapter 9 Ecological value of Urban Environments

Chapter 10 The Pedological Value of Urban Landscapes

Chapter 11 Insights and Perceptions of Sustainable Design and Construction

Chapter 12 Progress in Eco-and Resilient-Construction Materials Development

Chapter 13 Energy Efficiency: Alternative Routes to Mitigation

Chapter 14 The Benefits of Green Infrastructure in Towns and Cities

Chapter 15 Particulate Induced Soiling on Historic Limestone Buildings: Insights and the Effects of Climate Change

Chapter 16 Sustainable Transportation

Chapter 17 Linkages of Waste Management Strategies and Climate Change Issues

Chapter 18 Climate Change and the Geotechnical Stability of 'Engineered'Landfill Sites

Chapter 19 Water Resources Issues and Solutions for the Built Environment: too little versus too much

Chapter 20 Organisational Culture and Climate Change Driven Construction

Chapter 21 Preparing for Extreme weather events: A Risk Assessment Approach

Chapter 22 The Socio-environmental Vulnerability Assessment Approach to Mapping Vulnerability to Climate

Chapter 23 Mitigation via Renewables

Chapter 24 Complexities and Approaches to Managing the Adaptation of Climate Change by Coastal Communities

Chapter 25 Lessons for the Future

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Professor David Proverbs, Leiter des Lehrstuhls für Bauwesen und Infrastruktur, Fakultät für Ingenieurwesen und die gebaute Umwelt, University of Wolverhampton.

Colin Booth, Senior Lecturer, Construction and Infrastructure, School of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Wolverhampton

Felix N. Hammond, Lecturer, Construction and Infrastructure, School of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Wolverhampton

Jessica Lamond, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Construction and Infrastructure, School of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Wolverhampton

David G. Proverbs, Professor and Head of Department, Construction and Property, Faculty of Environment and Technology, University of the West of England