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 29, 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
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.
- 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
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
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: October 29, 2018
- Language: English
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