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Nearly zero energy building refurbishment : a multidisciplinary approach
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ISBN: 144715522X 1447155238 Year: 2013 Publisher: London : Springer,

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The recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on 19 May 2010. For new buildings, the recast fixes 2020 as the deadline for all new buildings to be “nearly zero energy” (and even sooner for public buildings – by the end of 2018). This book gives practitioner an important tool to tackle the challenges of building refurbishment towards nearly zero energy. This book is welcome at this time and sets the scene for professionals whether practitioners or researchers to learn more about how we can make whether old or new buildings more efficient and effective in terms of energy performance. .

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Energy conservation. --- Industrial engineering. --- Renewable energy sources. --- Architecture and energy conservation. --- Sustainable architecture. --- Eco-architecture --- Environmentally conscious architecture --- Environmentally friendly architecture --- Green architecture --- Green building design --- Green design (Buildings) --- Sustainable design (Buildings) --- Energy conservation and architecture --- Energy efficient buildings --- Energy. --- Renewable energy resources. --- Energy efficiency. --- Buildings --- Building. --- Construction. --- Engineering, Architectural. --- Alternate energy sources. --- Green energy industries. --- Energy Efficiency (incl. Buildings). --- Building Construction. --- Renewable and Green Energy. --- Design and construction. --- Green energy industries --- Energy industries --- Alternate energy sources --- Alternative energy sources --- Energy sources, Renewable --- Sustainable energy sources --- Power resources --- Renewable natural resources --- Agriculture and energy --- Architectural engineering --- Construction --- Construction science --- Engineering, Architectural --- Structural design --- Structural engineering --- Architecture --- Construction industry --- Consumption of energy --- Energy efficiency --- Fuel consumption --- Fuel efficiency --- Energy conservation --- Design and construction --- Sustainable design --- Energy Efficiency. --- Building Construction and Design. --- Buildings—Design and construction. --- Construcció --- Energies renovables --- Arquitectura i estalvi d'energia --- Energies alternatives --- Fonts alternatives d'energia --- Fonts d'energia alternatives --- Fonts d'energia renovables --- Recursos energètics alternatius --- Recursos energètics renovables --- Fonts d'energia --- Recursos naturals renovables --- Energia de la biomassa --- Energia eòlica --- Energia geotèrmica --- Energia hidràulica --- Energia maremotriu --- Energia solar --- Ecotecnologia --- Indústria de la construcció --- Tecnologia --- Arcs (Arquitectura) --- Cobertes (Construcció) --- Construcció subterrània --- Enderrocaments --- Entramats --- Finestres --- Fonaments --- Fusteria --- Murs --- Solars (Construcció) --- Sostres interiors --- Arquitectura --- Edificis --- Arquitectura i estalvi energètic --- Edificis energèticament eficients --- Estalvi d'energia i arquitectura --- Estalvi d'energia --- Arquitectura i medi ambient --- Repair and reconstruction.


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Population and Community Ecology of Ontogenetic Development
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ISBN: 1299051278 1400845610 9781400845613 9781299051270 9780691137575 0691137579 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Most organisms show substantial changes in size or morphology after they become independent of their parents and have to find their own food. Furthermore, the rate at which these changes occur generally depends on the amount of food they ingest. In this book, André de Roos and Lennart Persson advance a synthetic and individual-based theory of the effects of this plastic ontogenetic development on the dynamics of populations and communities. De Roos and Persson show how the effects of ontogenetic development on ecological dynamics critically depend on the efficiency with which differently sized individuals convert food into new biomass. Differences in this efficiency--or ontogenetic asymmetry--lead to bottlenecks in and thus population regulation by either maturation or reproduction. De Roos and Persson investigate the community consequences of these bottlenecks for trophic configurations that vary in the number and type of interacting species and in the degree of ontogenetic niche shifts exhibited by their individuals. They also demonstrate how insights into the effects of maturation and reproduction limitation on community equilibrium carry over to the dynamics of size-structured populations and give rise to different types of cohort-driven cycles. Featuring numerous examples and tests of modeling predictions, this book provides a pioneering and extensive theoretical and empirical treatment of the ecology of ontogenetic growth and development in organisms, emphasizing the importance of an individual-based perspective for understanding population and community dynamics.

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Ontogeny. --- Niche (Ecology) --- Animal populations. --- Ontogenesis --- Biology --- Embryology --- Developmental biology --- Microhabitat --- Biotic communities --- Competition (Biology) --- Ecology --- Habitat (Ecology) --- Demography, Wildlife --- Populations, Animal --- Wildlife demography --- Wildlife populations --- Animal ecology --- Population biology --- Niche (Ecology). --- Allee effect. --- Daphnia. --- Escalator Boxcar Train. --- bioenergentics. --- biomass overcompensation. --- cannibalism. --- cladoceran zooplankton. --- coexistence. --- cohort cycles. --- community structure. --- competition. --- consumer life history. --- consumer population. --- consumer-resource dynamics. --- consumer-resource systems. --- demand-driven systems. --- development. --- discrete reproduction. --- ecological dynamics. --- ecology. --- energetics. --- energy gain. --- foraging. --- interspecific competition. --- maturation. --- metabolic rates. --- metabolism. --- morphology. --- mortality. --- niche overlaps. --- ontogenetic asymmetry. --- ontogenetic development. --- ontogenetic diet shifts. --- ontogenetic niche shifts. --- ontogenetic symmetry. --- overcompensation. --- population dynamics. --- population models. --- population regulation. --- predation. --- predator life history. --- predators. --- prey availability. --- prey life history. --- prey. --- reproduction control. --- reproduction. --- resource competition. --- size dependence. --- size-structured prey ecology. --- stage-structured prey. --- supply-driven systems.

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