Decarbonising the Built Environment Charting the Transition /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Newton, Peter (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Prasad, Deo (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sproul, Alistair (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), White, Stephen (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Urban geography.; Sociology, Urban.; Urban planning.; City planning.; Sustainable development.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Urbanism.; Sustainable Development.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Pathways to Low Carbon Living
• Part 1: Energy Transition2. Energy futures for Australia
• 3. Rooftop photovoltaics: distributed renewable energy and storage (or low cost PV changes everything)
• 4. Community owned renewable energy: enabling the transition towards renewable energy?
• 5. Unlocking the benefits of vehicle electrification
• 6. Decarbonising household energy use: the smart meter revolution and beyond
• Part 2: Transition to Zero Carbon Buildings
• 7. Assessing embodied greenhouse gas emissions in the built environment
• 8. Transitioning to net zero energy homes: learnings from the CRC's high performance housing Living Laboratories
• 9. Decarbonising commercial buildings
• 10. The trajectory to a net zero emission built environment: the role of policy and regulation
• Part 3: Regenerating Urban Precincts and Cities
• 11. Sustainable precincts: transforming Australian cities one neighbourhood at a time
• 12. Development of low carbon urban forms: concepts, tools and scenarios
• 13. Health and the compact city
• 14. Low carbon urban mobility
• 15. Integrated urban water systems
• 16. Energy benchmarking for efficient, lower carbon wastewater treatment operations in Australia
• 17. Toward low carbon urban metabolism: the impact of eliminating food waste
• 18. Urban heat island mitigation for overheating and local climate change
• 19. Performance of urban precincts: towards integrated assessment
• Part 4: Human Factors in Low Carbon Living
• 20. Consumer responses to rating tools and residential energy efficiency disclosure
• 21. The Low Carbon Readiness Index
• 22. A social psychological guide for transformation into low carbon living
• 23. Shifting domestic energy consumption through a holistic understanding of the home system of practice
• 24. Engaging home renovators: opportunities and challenges for low carbon living
• 25. Sharing advice online: lessons for fostering sustainable homes from online discussion
• 26. Engaging local communities
• Part 5: A Future Perspective
• 27. Visions scenarios and pathways for rapid decarbonisation of Australian cities by 2040.