Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
ISBN: 978-0-415-25237-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Fifty years ago energy use was less than one third of what it is today. Even then, global carbon emissions exceeded sink capacity. Most journeys were made on foot, by bicycle or by bus. Motorways were a novelty and air travel undreamed of experience for most of the population. It has taken the industrialised world fifty years to engineer its present position, for the most part inadvertently through cheap energy and an apparently unlimited free sink for the products of combustion. It appears that it will take us as long again to engineer ourselves out of it again.
Steps Towards a Sustainable Built Environment makes meaningful, quantitative projections about the implications of climate change and the wide range of mechanisms - regulatory, technical and political - by which construction can contribute to solving the problems facing modern society.
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1. Introduction 2. Meanings of Sustainability 3. Possible Climate Change Scenarios 4. What can the Construction Industry Deliver? 5. Building Maps for Change 6. Exploring Options for Change - The UK Domestic Sector as an Example 7. Policies for Transition 8. Epilogue - A Long View of Sustainability
