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Provides a portrait of problems in various tropical developing countries due to climate change
Offers environmental solutions to mitigate climate change in the tropics
A new way to look at sustainability from carbon emissions and ecological footprint perspectives
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Sustainability of the Built Environment
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Adapting City for Climate Change
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Mitigating Building for Climate Change
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About this book
The book is divided into four main parts. The first part deals with the general issue of climate change, the cause and the ways to mitigate and to adapt the built environment for climate change in a number of countries. Part 2 deals with the conceptual ways to mitigate building for climate change. The ways to reduce cooling energy in tropical buildings by means of passive design. Part 3 offers papers that examine the way to overcome disasters in the city caused by climate change. The final part deals with the role of plants in mitigating and adapting built environments to climate change - the use of plants, trees and bushes to directly and indirectly reduce carbon emissions are discussed.
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Architecture, Tanri Abeng University, Jakarta, Indonesia
Tri Harso Karyono
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School of Architecture and Design, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Robert Vale, Brenda Vale
About the editors
Professor Robert Vale MA DipArch (Cambridge) PhD (Nottingham)
Professor Brenda Vale MA DipArch (Cambridge) PhD (Sheffield)
Professorial Research Fellows, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Robert and Brenda Vale are architects and academics. They wrote their first book on sustainable design, “The Autonomous House”, in 1975. Following their design of several award winning sustainable commercial buildings in the UK they went on to design and build the UK’s first autonomous house in 1993 and the first zero-emissions settlement in 1998. They have received international recognition, including awards from the United Nations and the European Solar Energy Society. More recently they developed the Australian government’s National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) which has now been put into operation. Their most recent environmental books are “Time to Eat the Dog? The real guide to sustainable living”, which analysed the impact on the environment of a western life-style and things people do every day and “Living within a Fair Share Ecological Footprint” which has chapters written by many of their former and existing postgraduate students. Their most recent book is "Architecture on the Carpet" which explores the links over the last hundred years between architecture and construction toys such as Meccano and Lego.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Building and Built Environments to Mitigate Climate Change in the Tropics
Book Subtitle: Conceptual and Practical Approaches
Editors: Tri Harso Karyono, Robert Vale, Brenda Vale
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49601-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49600-9Published: 02 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84196-0Published: 04 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49601-6Published: 21 February 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 273
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 89 illustrations in colour
Topics: Climate Change, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Sustainable Development, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Building Physics, HVAC, Energy Efficiency