150 Best New Eco Home Ideas / Francesc Zamora Mola
Features nearly 500 pages of full-color photographs and dozens of inventive and decorative profiles. Architects, designers, ...
Lee mas
A beginner's guide to urban design and development : the ABC of quality, sustainable design / Laura B. Alvarez
Provides invaluable guidance to all those with an interest in placemaking and the built environment, from those with no experience ...
Lee mas
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 ...
Lee mas
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 ...
Lee mas
Building Design, Construction and Performance in Tropical Climates / Mike Riley, Alison Cotgrave, Michael Farragher
Outlines: the functional requirements of buildings in tropical climates; the challenges associated with the sustainability ...
Lee mas
Cities for people / Jan Gehl
Presents latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses ...
Lee mas
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 ...
Lee mas
Designing healthy and liveable cities : creating sustainable urban regeneration / Marichela Sepe
Aim of this book is, after the definition of the field of investigation concerning sustainable regeneration trough topics ...
Lee mas
Designing sustainable and resilient cities : small interventions for stronger urban food-water-energy management / Alessandro Melis, Julia Catherine Brown, Claire Coulter
Explores the link between the food-water-energy nexus and sustainability, and the extraordinary value that small tweaks to ...
Lee mas
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 ...
Lee masGeoenvironmental 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 ...
Lee masGreen 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 ...
Lee masInternational 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 ...
Lee mas
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 ...
Lee mas
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 ...
Lee mas
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 ...
Lee mas
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 ...
Lee masPharma-Ecology: The Occurrence and Fate of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in the Environment / Patrick K. Jjemba
Presents a range of pharmaceutical compounds categorized by mode of action and common usage, displaying the volumes (or number ...
Lee mas
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 ...
Lee mas
Reconstructing the Future Cities as Carbon Sinks / Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber, Rocío Armillas Tiseyra, Bauhaus Eart
The built environment is a critical factor in the climate equation since buildings and physical infrastructure are directly ...
Lee mas
