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Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture

Impacts on Health

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  • © 2012

Overview

  • Contributed articles are devoted to recent interdisciplinary works in a variety of subjects related to sustainable architecture and engineering, environmental modeling, behavioral science and public health
  • Can be used as a supplemental text in a course focusing on Environmental Design in Architecture, Sustainable Building Design, Civil Engineering, Urban Development, Public Health, or Epidemiology
  • Topics presented will appeal to a wide readership within the scientific community
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Optimization and Its Applications (SOIA, volume 56)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Public Health and Neuroscience for Architecture and Sustainability

  2. Indoor Environmental Design Impacts on Health and Well-Being

  3. Impact of Outdoor Environmental Conditions on Human Behavior and Health

  4. Remote Sensing, Modeling and Assessment of Multi-Scale Design Dynamics

  5. Sustainability: Theory, Philosophy and Diplomacy

About this book

Over the last few decades, there have been dramatic improvements in the understanding and research of environmental design. Numerous methods have been developed to enhance architectural design in order for it to be more energy efficient, sustainable and health enhancing.

This book presents several theories and techniques that can be used to improve how buildings are engineered and designed in order to utilize more sustainable construction methods while promoting the health of the building's occupants.

Contributions to the study of environmental design have come from a diversity of fields including applied mathematics, optimization, computer science, medical research, psychology, management science, architecture, and engineering. The techniques developed in these areas of research can be used to increase building performance, occupant satisfaction, productivity, and well being, and reducing the incidence of health conditions and chronic diseases related to the use of a designed space.

This book provides architectural practitioners, civil engineers as well as other interdisciplinary researchers with the techniques needed to design, implement, and test for sustainability and health promotion in new or existing structures.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Stamatina Th. Rassia

  • Dept. Industrial & Systems, Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

    Panos M. Pardalos

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