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Decarbonising the Built Environment

Charting the Transition

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Editors:
  1. Peter Newton

    1. Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

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  2. Deo Prasad

    1. University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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  3. Alistair Sproul

    1. School of Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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  4. Stephen White

    1. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Adelaide, Australia

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  • Identifies innovative and effective pathways for decarbonising the built environment from applied research undertaken by the Co-Operative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living

  • Addresses three grand socio-technical challenges: transition to renewable energy, transition to low carbon built environment and transition to low carbon human behavior – and their interrelationships

  • Identifies the most prospective opportunities for change in how cities and their built environments are designed, built and operated and where activities and behaviours of governments, businesses and residents need to change to radically reduce carbon and ecological footprints and reverse global warming

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
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  2. Pathways to Low Carbon Living

    • Peter Newton, Deo Prasad, Alistair Sproul, Stephen White
    Pages 1-32

  4. Transition to Zero Carbon Buildings

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. Assessing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Built Environment

      • Soo Huey Teh, Thomas Wiedmann, Robert H. Crawford, Ke Xing
      Pages 119-141

    3. Transitioning to Net Zero Energy Homes—Learnings from the CRC’s High-Performance Housing Living Laboratories

      • Joshua Byrne, Stephen Berry, Christine Eon
      Pages 143-162

    4. Decarbonising Commercial Buildings

      • Philip Oldfield, Roger Swinbourne, Kriston Symons
      Pages 163-191

    5. The Trajectory to a Net Zero Emissions Built Environment: The Role of Policy and Regulation

      • Philip Harrington, Virginia Hoy
      Pages 193-207

  5. Regenerating Urban Precincts and Cities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
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    2. Sustainable Precincts: Transforming Australian Cities One Neighbourhood at a Time

      • Giles Thomson, Peter Newton, Peter Newman
      Pages 211-225

    3. Development of Low-Carbon Urban Forms—Concepts, Tools and Scenario Analysis

      • Ke Xing, Thomas Wiedmann, Peter Newton, Bin Huang, Stephen Pullen
      Pages 227-244

    4. Health and the Compact City

      • Mark Stevenson, Jason Thompson
      Pages 245-258

    5. Low Carbon Urban Mobility

      • Hussein Dia, Michael Taylor, John Stone, Sekhar Somenahalli, Stephen Cook
      Pages 259-285

    6. Integrated Urban Water Systems

      • Steven J. Kenway, Ka Leung Lam, Beata Sochacka, Marguerite A. Renouf
      Pages 287-304

    7. Energy Benchmarking for Efficient, Lower Carbon Wastewater Treatment Operations in Australia

      • Ilda Clos, Juan Pablo Alvarez-Gaitan, Christopher P. Saint, Michael D. Short
      Pages 305-320
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About this book

This book focuses on the challenge that Australia faces in transitioning to renewable energy and regenerating its cities via a transformation of its built environment. Both are necessary conditions for low carbon living in the 21st century. This is a global challenge represented by the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and the IPCC’s Climate Change program and its focus on mitigation and adaptation. All nations must make significant contributions to this transformation. This book highlights the new knowledge and innovation that has emerged from research projects undertaken in the Co-operative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living between 2012 and 2019 – an initiative of the Australian Government’s Department of Industry, Science and Technology that is tasked with responding to the UN challenges. Four principal transition pathways were central to the CRC and provide the thematic structure to this volume. They focus on technology, buildings, precinct and city design, and human behaviour – and their interactions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

    Peter Newton

  • University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Deo Prasad

  • School of Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Alistair Sproul

  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Adelaide, Australia

    Stephen White

About the editors

Peter Newton, PhD FASSA, is Research Professor in the Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.


Deo Prasad, PhD AO FTSE, is Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.


Alistair Sproul, PhD, is Professor and Head of School of Photovaltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney.


Stephen White, PhD, is Energy Efficiency Domain Leader in the Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation in Australia.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Decarbonising the Built Environment

  • Book Subtitle: Charting the Transition

  • Editors: Peter Newton, Deo Prasad, Alistair Sproul, Stephen White

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7940-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7939-0Published: 28 June 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7942-0Published: 14 August 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-7940-6Published: 07 June 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXII, 555

  • Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations, 41 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Studies/Sociology, Urbanism, Sustainable Development

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