
Minimizing Energy Consumption, Energy Poverty and Global and Local Climate Change in the Built Environment: Innovating to Zero
Causalities and Impacts in a Zero Concept World
Description
Key Features
- Presents and analyzes over twenty specific linkages and causalities between energy consumption, climate change and energy poverty
- Describes the state-of-the-art regarding the energy consumption of buildings in Europe and recent trends and characteristics
- Explores how can we transform problems into opportunities
- Examines how we can increase the added value of technological, economic and social interventions to generate wealth and offer employment opportunities
Readership
Energy academics and researchers, urban climatologists, urban planners, sustainability/sustainable development academics and researchers, geographers, professionals/researchers focused on the built environment
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Energy Consumption and Environmental Quality of the Building Sector
3. Urban Heat Island and Local Climate Change
4. Energy Poverty and Urban Vulnerability
5. Defining the Synergies Between Energy Consumption – Local Climate Change and Energy Poverty
6. Defining the Future Targets
7. Technological – Economic and Social Measures to Decrease the Energy Consumption of the Building Sector
8. Mitigating the Local Climatic Change and Fighting Urban Vulnerability
9. Eradicating the Energy Poverty in the Developed World
10. Concluding Remarks and Policy Proposals
Product details
- No. of pages: 352
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2018
- Published: October 15, 2018
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128114186
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128114179
About the Author
Matthaios Santamouris
Affiliations and Expertise
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