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Evaluation of the Built Environment for Sustainability (Hardcover)
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Evaluation of the Built Environment for Sustainability (Hardcover)
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Sustainability in the built environment is a major issue facing
policy-makers, planners, developers and designers in the UK, Europe
and worldwide. The measuring of buildings and cities for
sustainability becomes increasingly important as pressure for
green, sustainable development translates into policy and
legislation. The problems of such measurement and evaluation are
presented by the authors in contributions which move from the
general to the particular, for example from a general framework for
an environmentally sustainable form of urban development to a
specific input-output model application to environmental problems.
The book is divided into three systems: part one covers research
programmes, environmental policies, green corporations and
collaborative strategies to make urban development more
sustainable; part two discusses the problems of evaluating the
built environment in planning and construction, covering economic
and environmental methods and construction, development and
regeneration processes; and part three illustrates a number of
applications using different approaches and techniques and
referring to a range of environmental apsects of the natural and
built envir
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