The Water Footprint in Bioenergy - A Comparison of Four Biomass Sources to Produce Biofuels in Argentina -- Water Footprints of Hydropower Projects -- An Empirical Investigation into Water Footprint of Concrete Industry in Iran.This book highlights the concept of environmental water footprint in the energy (bioenergy & hydropower) sector and the building/construction sector, focusing on a case …
Preface -- Climate Action Planning -- Creating a Framework for Community Action -- Community Engagement and Collaboration -- Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting -- Strategies for Creating Low-Carbon Communities -- Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment -- Strategies for Resilient Communities -- Pathways to Successful Implementation -- Communities Leading the Way -- Time to Take Action -- Appen…
Part I: Product Life Cycle Design and Business Strategy -- EcoDesign of Products and Life Cycles -- Sustainable Consumption -- Business Innovation -- Part II: Technologies for the Future and Sustainability -- From Big Data to Smart Data -- Cyber-Physical Systems -- Environmental Effects of Latest Technology Trends -- Part III: Social Perspectives in EcoDesign -- Social Vision and Scenarios for…
"A plea for a renewed commitment to authentic urbanism and an invitation to learn from history as our cities enter a future of unprecedented change." Alex Steffen, author of "Carbon Zero: Imagining Cities that Can Save the Planet" "One of Chuck Wolfe's great gifts is an extraordinary photographer's eye for capturing visual images of everyday, but evocative, city life. Another is an uncommonly s…
Introduction -- 1. Growth of Sydney Metropolitan Region Over Time and Current Urban Design Practices -- 2. The City as an Economic Driver -- 3. 20 Years of Spatial Growth and Planning in Sydney -- 4. The Role of Qualitative Public Spaces -- 5. The Need for Developing Sustainability in Urbanism -- 6. The Concept of the Resilient City -- 7. The Design of the Sydney Green Grid -- 8. Landscapes and…
by Marc Méquignon, Hassan Ait Haddou.
Energy Footprint of Biorefinery Schemes -- A Technical Review on Methods and Tools for Evaluation of Energy Footprints, Impact on Buildings and Environment -- Establishment of Electrical Energy Benchmarking Protocol for the Assessment of the Carbon Emission in Hotel Industry.This book deals with the energy footprints of biorefineries and the hotel and buildings sector. It presents footprint cas…
Sustainability Concept in Developing Countries -- Urbanism and Sustainability concept -- Energy & Sustainability Concept.This edited volume consists of three parts. It is a culmination of selected research papers presented at the second version of the international conference on Improving Sustainability Concept in Developing Countries (ISCDC) and the second version of the international conferen…
1.Development and Application of Water-saving and Moisture-retaining Membrane Made from Controllable High Polymer Materials for Concrete Curing -- 2.Characteristics of excavation-induced deformation associated with different propped retaining walls in soft soil -- 3.Slope Stability Analysis of the Embankment Filled with River Sand and Weathered Mudstone Rock -- 4.Investigating Effects of Indivi…