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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
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, e.g. 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 parts: the first covers city models and
sustainable systems - 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; part three illustrates a
number of applications using different approaches and techniques
and referring to a range of environmental aspects of the natural
and built environment, from maintaining historic buildings to
transport management and air pollution monitoring.
Low-Carbon Energy Security from a European Perspective draws on the
European Commission's funded project MILESECURE-2050. It considers
low-carbon energy security and energy geopolitics in Europe, with a
focus on four thematic clusters: challenging the energy security
paradigm; climate change and energy security objectives (the
components of a secure and low-carbon energy system); energy
security in a geopolitical perspective, as it relates to economics,
resource competition, and availability; and the influence of large
scale renewable energy projects on energy security and shifting
geopolitical alliances. An overarching narrative is that optimizing
the energy system simultaneously across different objectives may be
impossible, i.e., lowest cost, least environmental impact, minimal
downtime, regional supply. This book explores these charged topics
through insights from a series of novel, new energy project case
studies, and demonstrates the need for difficult political
conversations within Europe and beyond by posing fundamental yet
new questions about the energy security paradigm.
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