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  title info:
    title: Decarbonising Cities
    sub title: Mainstreaming Low Carbon Urban Development
  name:
    name part: Rauland, Vanessa.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Newman, Peter.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 266 p. 35 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book sets out some positive directions to move forward including government policy and regulatory options, an innovative GRID (Greening, Regenerative, Improvement Districts) scheme that can assist with funding and management, and the first steps towards an innovative carbon credit scheme for the built environment. Decarbonising cities is a global agenda with huge significance for the future of urban civilisation. Global demonstrations have shown that technology and design issues are largely solved. However, the mainstreaming of low carbon urban development, particularly at the precinct scale, currently lacks sufficient: standards for measuring carbon covering operational, embodied and transport emissions; assessment and decision-making tools to assist in design options; certifying processes for carbon neutrality within the built environment; and accreditation processes for enabling carbon credits to be generated from precinct-wide urban development. Numerous barriers are currently hindering greater adoption of high performance, low carbon developments, many of which relate to implementation and governance. How to enable and manage precinct-scale renewables and other low carbon technologies within an urban setting is a particular challenge.
  table of contents: Addressing Three Wicked Problems -- The Global Shift to a Low Carbon Economy -- Why Cities? -- Low Carbon Resource Management in Cities -- The Precinct – The New Scale for Decarbonising -- Eco Precincts -- The Rise of Carbon Neutrality -- Counting Carbon in Cities -- Rating Carbon in Urban Development -- Certifying for Carbon Neutrality -- Spotlight: The Australian Government Carbon Neutral Standard -- A New Framework and Core Elements -- Making it work -- Final Thoughts.
  note: by Vanessa Rauland, Peter Newman.
  subject:
    topic: Energy
  subject:
    topic: Energy efficiency
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
  subject:
    topic: Environmental economics
  subject:
    topic: Energy
  subject:
    topic: Energy Efficiency (incl. Buildings)
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change Management and Policy
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Economics
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable Development
  classification: T58.8
  classification: 658.26
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Green Energy and Technology
  identifier: 9783319155067
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15506-7
  record info:
    record creation date: 150327
    record change date: 20151204165201.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-15506-7