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Minimizing Energy Consumption, Energy Poverty and Global and Local Climate Change in the Built Environment: Innovating to Zero

Causalities and Impacts in a Zero Concept World

  • 1st Edition - October 15, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Mattheos Santamouris
  • Language: English

Minimizing Energy Consumption, Energy Poverty and Global and Local Climate Change in the Built Environment: Innovating to Zero analyzes three major issues of the built environme… Read more

Description

Minimizing Energy Consumption, Energy Poverty and Global and Local Climate Change in the Built Environment: Innovating to Zero analyzes three major issues of the built environment, including the political, economic and technical contexts, the impacts of global and local climate change, and the technical and social characteristics of energy poverty. In addition, the book addresses the causes and reasons for the magnitude and characteristics of the built environment’s energy consumption.

Users will find a fresh view of energy consumption in the built environment, especially in relation to energy poverty and climate change from the ZERO energy world perspective.

Key features

  • Presents and analyzes over twenty specific linkages and causalities between energy consumption, climate change and energy poverty
  • Describes the state-of-the-art regarding the energy consumption of buildings in Europe and recent trends and characteristics
  • Explores how can we transform problems into opportunities
  • Examines how we can increase the added value of technological, economic and social interventions to generate wealth and offer employment opportunities

Readership

Energy academics and researchers, urban climatologists, urban planners, sustainability/sustainable development academics and researchers, geographers, professionals/researchers focused on the built environment

Table of contents

1. Introduction2. Energy Consumption and Environmental Quality of the Building Sector3. Urban Heat Island and Local Climate Change4. Energy Poverty and Urban Vulnerability　5. Defining the Synergies Between Energy Consumption – Local Climate Change and Energy Poverty6. Defining the Future Targets7. Technological – Economic and Social Measures to Decrease the Energy Consumption of the Building Sector8. Mitigating the Local Climatic Change and Fighting Urban Vulnerability9. Eradicating the Energy Poverty in the Developed World10. Concluding Remarks and Policy Proposals

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 15, 2018
  • Language: English

About the author

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Mattheos Santamouris

Professor Matthaios Santamouris is a Scientia, Distinguished, Professor of High Performance Architecture at University of New South Wales.

Affiliations and expertise
University of New South Wales,Sydney, Australia

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