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Today's homes must prepare for a progressing ageing population and an increasing risk caused by climate change, as well as to reduce CO2 emissions. How homes can be designed to meet all of these requirements? How such design can be promoted in the housing market? Sustainable Home Design by Applying Control Science answers these questions, by using a novel approach. Kazutoshi Fujihira, an innovative environmental scientist and sustainable housing award winner, demonstrates the ""control system for promoting sustainable home design"" with the ""sustainable design guidelines"" and ""sustainability checklist"". Moreover, the chapter of case study illustrates an actually designed and constructed house, which shows excellent sustainability and energy-saving performance.

Sustainable horticulture. --- Horticulture --- Sustainable agriculture --- Life Sciences --- Environmental Design --- Sustainability --- Environmental Sciences

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Contracting out --- Letting of contracts --- Evaluation. --- Government policy --- Evaluation. --- Phoenix Environmental Design Inc.

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"Designed for how people study, the book is clearly organized and provides sample questions and flashcards through out the book"--

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System --- Sustainable construction --- Rating System --- Examinations

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"How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the lion's share of carbon to the atmosphere, while also lying on the frontlines of rising sea levels. Today, the majority of the world's megacities are located in coastal zones, yet few of them are adequately prepared for the floods that will increasingly menace their shores. Instead, most continue to develop luxury waterfront condos for the elite and industrial facilities for corporations. These not only intensify carbon emissions, but also place coastal residents at greater risk when water levels rise. In Extreme Cities, Dawson offers an alarming portrait of the future of our cities, describing the efforts of Staten Island, New York, and Shishmaref, Alaska residents to relocate; Holland's models for defending against the seas; and the development of New York City before and after Hurricane Sandy. Our best hope lies not with fortified sea walls, he argues. Rather, it lies with urban movements already fighting to remake our cities in a more just and equitable way. As much a harrowing study as a call to arms Extreme Cities is a necessary read for anyone concerned with the threat of global warming, and of the cities of the world."

504 --- 711.4 --- 316 --- Ecologie --- Stedenbouw (theorie) --- Stedenbouw (kritiek) --- Sociologie --- Meteorology. Climatology --- Social geography --- urban sociology --- environmental design --- climate change