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
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Mattheos Santamouris
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 1 4 1 7 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 1 4 1 8 - 6
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
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Request a sales quoteMinimizing 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
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 15, 2018
- No. of pages (Paperback): 352
- No. of pages (eBook): 352
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128114179
- eBook ISBN: 9780128114186
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Mattheos Santamouris
Mat Santamouris is the Anita Lawrence Professor of High Performance Architecture in the University of New South Wales in Australia. He is a past a professor at the University of Athens, Greece and visiting Professor at the Cyprus Institute, Metropolitan University of London, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Bolzano University, Brunnel University and National University of Singapore. Past President of the National Center of Renewable and Energy Savings of Greece. Editor and author of 15 international books on topics related to heat island, solar energy and energy conservation in buildings published by Earthscan, Springer, etc. Guest editor of twelve special issues of various scientific journals. Scientific coordinator of many international research programs and author of almost 290 scientific papers published in peer reviewed international scientific journals. Reviewer of research projects in 15 countries including USA, UK, France, Germany, Canada, Sweden, etc. Expert in various International Research Institutions. Highly Cited researcher according to Clarivate in 2017 and 2018.
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University of New South Wales,Sydney, AustraliaRead Minimizing Energy Consumption, Energy Poverty and Global and Local Climate Change in the Built Environment: Innovating to Zero on ScienceDirect