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1st Edition - October 15, 2018
Author: Matthaios Santamouris
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… Read more
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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.
Energy academics and researchers, urban climatologists, urban planners, sustainability/sustainable development academics and researchers, geographers, professionals/researchers focused on the built environment
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
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