Editors:
Provides information on the latest research findings concerning sustainable houses and living in rapidly growing, hot and humid Asian cities
Presents comprehensive research findings covering vernacular houses, human adaptive thermal comfort and behavior, household energy consumption, indoor thermal environment, and vulnerability for climate change
Comprises a total of 50 chapters written by 53 authors from various countries, mainly from the Asian region
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Table of contents (50 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Vernacular Architecture
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Front Matter
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Adaptive Thermal Comfort
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About this book
Today, approximately 35-40% of global energy is consumed in Asia, and this percentage is expected to rise further. Energy consumption has increased, particularly in the residential sector, in line with the rapid rise of the middle class. The majority of growing Asian cities are located in hot and humid climate regions, and as such there is an urgent need for designers to provide healthy and comfortable indoor environments that do not consume non-renewable energy or resources excessively. This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in sustainable house design in the growing cities of Asia.
Keywords
- Developing countries
- Sustainability
- Tropics
- Energy-saving
- Thermal comfort
- Occupants’ behaviour
- Window opening
- Adaptive comfort
- Passive cooling
- Vernacular architecture
- Urban heat island
- Household energy consumption
- Climate change
- Green growth
- Southeast Asia
- South Asia
- Exergy
- Climate change management
Editors and Affiliations
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Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation (IDEC), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
Tetsu Kubota
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Department of Restoration Ecology and Built Environment, Tokyo City University, Yokohama, Japan
Hom Bahadur Rijal
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Department of Architecture, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroto Takaguchi
About the editors
Dr. Tetsu Kubota
Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
Prof. Dr. Hom B. Rijal
Tokyo City University, Yokohama, Japan
Prof. Dr. Hiroto Takaguchi
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Houses and Living in the Hot-Humid Climates of Asia
Editors: Tetsu Kubota, Hom Bahadur Rijal, Hiroto Takaguchi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8465-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-8464-5Published: 05 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4159-5Published: 11 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-8465-2Published: 21 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 559
Number of Illustrations: 146 b/w illustrations, 201 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Environmental Management, Climate Change Management and Policy, Climate Change