Building for a changing climate : the challenge for construction, planning and energy / Peter F. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Peter F. (Peter Frederick), 1930-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Environmental aspects.

City planning.

Housing--Environmental aspects.

Housing.

Climatic changes.

Sustainable urban development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There is now a practically universal consensus that our climate is changing rapidly, and as a direct result of human activities. While there is extensive debate about what we can do to mitigate the damage we are causing, it is becoming increasingly clear that a large part of our resources will have to be directed towards adapting to new climatic conditions, with talk of survivability replacing sustainability as the new and most pressing priority. Nowhere is this more evident than in the built environment - the stage on which our most important interactions with climatic conditions ar

Contents:

1. Prepare for four degrees

2. Probable future impacts of climate change

3. The UN carbon trading mechanism

4. Setting the pace towards climate-proof housing

5. Future-proof housing

6. Building-integrated solar electricity

7. Sun, earth, wind and water

8. Eco-towns : opportunity or oxymoron?

9. The housing inheritance

10. On-domestic buildings

11. Community buildings

12. Conventional energy

13. Coal : black gold or black hole?

14. Filling the gap; utility-scale renewables

15. The age beyond oil

16. The thread of hope.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-173) and index.

ISBN:

1-136-54635-9

1-136-54636-7

1-282-50600-5

9786612506000

1-84977-439-0

9781849774390

OCLC:

593328395