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Climate Change, Energy, Sustainability and Pavements (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
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Climate Change, Energy, Sustainability and Pavements (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Series: Green Energy and Technology
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Climate change, energy production and consumption, and the need to
improve the sustainability of all aspects of human activity are key
inter-related issues for which solutions must be found and
implemented quickly and efficiently. To be successfully
implemented, solutions must recognize the rapidly changing
socio-techno-political environment and multi-dimensional
constraints presented by today's interconnected world. As part of
this global effort, considerations of climate change impacts,
energy demands, and incorporation of sustainability concepts have
increasing importance in the design, construction, and maintenance
of highway and airport pavement systems. To prepare the human
capacity to develop and implement these solutions, many educators,
policy-makers and practitioners have stressed the paramount
importance of formally incorporating sustainability concepts in the
civil engineering curriculum to educate and train future civil
engineers well-equipped to address our current and future
sustainability challenges. This book will prove a valuable resource
in the hands of researchers, educators and future engineering
leaders, most of whom will be working in multidisciplinary
environments to address a host of next-generation sustainable
transportation infrastructure challenges. "This book proposes a
broad detailed overview of the actual scientific knowledge about
pavements linked to climate change, energy and sustainability at
the international level in an original
multidimensional/multi-effects way. By the end, the reader will be
aware of the whole global issues to care about for various pavement
technical features around the world, among which the implications
of modelling including data collection, challenging resources
saving and infrastructures services optimisation. This is a
complete and varied work, rare in the domain." Dr. Agnes Jullien
Research Director Director of Environmental, Development, Safety
and Eco-Design Laboratory (EASE) Department of Development,
Mobility and Environment Ifsttar Centre de Nantes Cedex- France "An
excellent compilation of latest developments in the field of
sustainable pavements. The chapter topics have been carefully
chosen and are very well-organized with the intention of equipping
the reader with the state-of-the-art knowledge on all aspects of
pavement sustainability. Topics covered include pavement Life Cycle
Analysis (LCA), pervious pavements, cool pavements, photocatalytic
pavements, energy harvesting pavements, etc. which will all be of
significant interest to students, researchers, and practitioners of
pavement engineering. This book will no doubt serve as an excellent
reference on the topic of sustainable pavements." Dr. Wei-Hsing
Huang Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Pavement Research
and Technology (IJPRT) and Professor of Civil Engineering National
Central University Taiwan
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