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Building for a Changing Climate - The Challenge for Construction, Planning and Energy (Paperback)
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Building for a Changing Climate - The Challenge for Construction, Planning and Energy (Paperback)
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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 are played out. In this frank yet pervasively positive
book, sustainable architecture guru Peter Smith lays out his vision
of how things are likely to change, and what those concerned with
the planning, design and construction of the places we live and
work can and must do to avert the worst impacts. Beginning with the
background to the science and discussion of the widely feared
graver risks not addressed by the politically driven IPCC reports,
he moves on to examine the challenges we will face and to propose
practical responses based on real world experiences and case
studies taking in flood and severe weather protection, energy
efficient retrofitting, distributed power generation and the
potential for affordable zero carbon homes. He ends with a wider
discussion of options for future energy provision. This will be a
provocative, persuasive and - crucially - practical read for anyone
concerned with the measures we must take now to ensure a
climate-proofed future for humanity.
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