Electronic Books

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Advanced Materials in Smart Building Skins for Sustainability: From Nano to Macroscale / Julian Wang, Donglu Shi, Yehao Song

Demonstrates the importance of smart and dynamic building skins in in sustainable buildings Provides the scientific basis ...

Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Internet of Things in Sustainable Development / Sam Goundar, Archana Purwar, Ajmer Singh

Focuses on different algorithms and models related to AI, big data and IoT used for various domains. It enables the reader ...

City, Climate, and Architecture : A Theory of Collective Practice / Sascha Roesler

Based on a history of climate control on urban scales, it promotes the integration of indoors and outdoors in order to reduce ...

Extinction Governance, Finance and Accounting : Implementing a Species Protection Action Plan for the Financial Markets / Jill Atkins, Martina Macpherson

The book presents plans, metrics, frameworks, mechanisms and financial innovations that can be, and are being, implemented ...

Geoenvironmental Engineering: Geoenvironmental Impact Management: Proceedings of the third conference organized by the British Geotechnical Association and Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff University, and held in Edinburgh on 17–19 September 2001

Geoenvironmental engineering contains the collected papers from the third Geoenvironmental Engineering Conference, organised ...

Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology; Biological, Pharmaceutical, and Macromolecular Systems / Satish A. Dake & Ravindra S. Shinde

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this new volume brings together innovative research, new concepts, and novel developments ...

International conference on: Terrain and geohazard challenges facing onshore oil and gas pipelines: Proceedings of a three day international conference on terrain and geohazard challenges facing onshore oil and gas pipelines, organised by the Institution of Civil Engineers in association with BP Exploration and held at the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, UK, on 2 – 4 June 2004

To access global oil and gas deposits, major pipelines must traverse remote regions with extreme terrains. There are a significant ...

Low Impact Building: Housing using Renewable Materials / Tom Woolley

Guides to the designs, technologies and materials that really make green buildings work will help architects, specifiers ...

Metals in Society and in the Environment

In 2002, the Swedish Metal Information Task Force (MITF) engaged the Environmental Research Group (MFG) to update previous ...

Natural Building Techniques : A Guide to Ecological Methods and Materials / Tom Woolley

Natural materials are increasingly being valued for their use in a wide range of techniques and solutions, not just for building ...

Nature by Design: The Practice of Biophilic Design / Stephen R. Kellert

Describes the basic principles, practices, and options for successfully implementing biophilic design. He shows us what is—and ...

Principles of Sustainable Project Management / Mohamed Salama

Presents, explains and discusses the imperative new approach required to address soft issues such as leadership and managing ...

Reusable and Sustainable Building Materials in Modern Architecture / Gülşah Koç and Bryan Christiansen

Designing buildings and physical environments depends on social structure, social needs, economic data, environment, and ...

Site Investigation in Construction Part 4: Guidelines for the Safe Investigation by Drilling of Landfills and Contaminated Land

These guidelines seek to promote the use of safe working practices in the investigation of landfills and contaminated land. ...

Sustainable Nation: Urban Design Patterns for the Future / Douglas Farr

Embraces the idea that the humanitarian, population, and climate crises are three facets of one interrelated human existential ...

The Ganges Water Diversion: Environmental Effects and Implications

This book deals with environmental effects on both sides of the border between Bangladesh and India caused by the Ganges ...

The exploitation of natural resources and the consequences: The proceedings of GREEN 3: the 3rd International Symposium on Geotechnics Related to the European Environment held in Berlin, Germany, June 2000

As the pressure to conserve agricultural land and green-field sites has grown it has become increasingly important to reclaim ...

Toxicology of Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials in Human, Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems / Marc A. Williams

Toxicology of Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials in Human, Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems provides authoritative information ...

Wadi Flash Floods : Challenges and Advanced Approaches for Disaster Risk Reduction

The book chapters comprehensively and significantly highlight different scientific research disciplines related to wadi flash ...

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