Rays of Hope
Author: Denis Hayes
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780393064186
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The North American Mosaic
Author: Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec). Secretariat
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe North American Mosaic has four overarching features. First, it is, to the extent feasible, based on comparable information on the status and trends of major indicators of the state of the environment in Canada,Mexico, and the United States. Second, the report confirms that these three countries together make up an incredibly complex, dynamic, and interconnected ecosystem in which humans play a dominant and decisive role. Third, the report raises important and sometimes disquieting questions concerning the sustainability of some current trends. Finally, the report is a reminder that our economic, social, and physical well-being are utterly dependent on the life-sustaining services provided by nature. This report emphasizes the importance of developing mutually compatible economic, social, and environmental goals and policies across the three-country region.
The Green Studio Handbook
Author: Alison G Kwok
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-01-19
Total Pages: 807
ISBN-13: 1317228634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Green Studio Handbook remains an essential resource for design studios and professional practice. This extensive and user-friendly tool presents practical guidelines for the application of green strategies during the schematic design of buildings. Students and professionals can quickly get up to speed on system viability and sizing. Each of forty-three environmental strategies includes a brief description of principles and concepts, step-by-step guidance for integrating the strategy during the early stages of design, annotated tables and charts to assist with preliminary sizing, key issues to consider when implementing the strategy, and pointers to further resources. Ten new in-depth case studies illustrate diverse and successful green buildings integrated design projects and how the whole process comes together This third edition features updated tables and charts that will help to save energy, water, and material resources during the early stages of design. More than 500 sketches and full-color images illustrate how to successfully apply strategies. A glossary, a project index listing 105 buildings in 20 countries, updated tables and drawings, and I-P and SI units increase the usefulness of The Green Studio Handbook.
Climate Change Policy
Author: Michael Bothe
Publisher: Eleven International Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9077596054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the research results of an interdisciplinary study on climate change policies by the Enforcing Environmental Policy (EEP) Network, a project supported by the Human Dimension Potential Programme. Contributions are from highly qualified economic and legal specialists based at research institutes across Europe. The book gives answers to several questions related to the implementation of the international rules on climate change, most notably the Kyoto Protocol. It analyses ways and means to facilitate and encourage compliance with the objectives of the Kyoto Protocol. It is addressed to policy-makers, academics, business-sector and stakeholders throughout and outside Europe. Due to its interdisciplinary approach, this work is a distinctive and unique product compared to the existing literature on the subject. The effective implementation of climate protection and clean air policy requires an understanding of the political, legal and economic structures and constraints facing policy makers - and this is exactly what this book offers.
International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2018-09-03
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 9251091870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe understanding that some pesticides are more hazardous than others is well established. Recognition of this is reflected by the World Health Organization (WHO) Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard, which was first published in 1975. The document classifies pesticides in one of five hazard classes according to their acute toxicity. In 2002, the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) was introduced, which in addition to acute toxicity also provides classification of chemicals according to their chronic health hazards and environmental hazards.
Introduction to Architectural Science
Author: Steven V. Szokolay
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-11
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 1317918592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow in its third edition, this book provides the ideal and only reference to the physical basis of architectural design. Fully updated and expanded throughout, the book provides the data required for architects to design buildings that will maintain the users comfort in a variety of conditions, with minimal reliance on energy intensive methods like air conditioning. This is not a ‘how to’ book but answers the question why. It equips the reader with the tools to realize the full potential of the good intentions of sustainable, bioclimatic design. All sections have been revised and updated for this third edition including all the most relevant developments affecting heat, light and sound controls. The book responds to the need of understanding beyond ‘rules of thumb’.
Cities of Tomorrow
Author: Peter Hall
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1997-02-18
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9780631199434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject. The third edition of Cities of Tomorrow is comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective. This is the definitive edition, reviewing the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.
Engaging People in Sustainability
Author: Daniella Tilbury
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9782831708232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book is based on the exchange of professional experiences which featured in an IUCN CEC workshop in August 2002. Practitioners from around the world shared their models of good practice and explored the challenges involved in engaging people in sustainability. The difficulties facing practitioners vary between country and context but some challenges are universal: A lack of clarity in communicating what is meant by sustainable development; An ambition to educate everyone to bring about a global citizenship; Social, organisational or institutional factors constrain change to sustainable development, yet there is an emphasis on formal education, and community educators do not receive the same support; A lack of balance in addressing the integration of environmental, social and economic dimensions leading to an interpretation that ESD is mainly about environment and conservation issues; New learning (rather than teaching) approaches are called for to promote more debate in society. Yet, few are trained or experienced in these new approaches. Practitioners need support to explore new ways of promoting learning. [Foreword, ed].
Eficiencia energética de los edificios. Certificación energética
Author: REY MARTINEZ, FRANCISCO JAVIER
Publisher: Ediciones Paraninfo, S.A.
Published: 2018-01-01
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 8428339945
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEste libro actualiza la primera parte del libro titulado Eficiencia energética en edificios. Certificación y auditorías energéticascon las últimas normativas vigentes, tanto nacionales como internacionales. El objetivo de esta obra es dar a conocer y dotar de herramientas prácticas al certificador energético de edificios: factores constructivos que determinan la demanda energética del edificio; sistemas de calefacción, ventilación, iluminación, aire acondicionado, ACS, recuperación de energía y sistemas de energías renovables para obtener el consumo de energía del edificio y emisiones de CO2 asociadas para su calificación energética; y medidas de mejora que pueden ser implementadas para mejorar la calificación energética obtenida de un determinado edificio. En el libro se analizan diferentes metodologías de certificación energética utilizadas en otros países, además de la calificación energética del edifico en España mediante el manejo de las herramientas de software actuales que se encuentran reconocidas por el ministerio español. Para que este libro sirva como guía del certificador energético, se incluyen los esquemas de utilización de las diferentes herramientas informáticas (HULC, CE3, CE3X y CERMA), la tipología de los edificios para los que están recomendadas y ejemplos de certificación energética utilizando las metodologías más habituales.
