| Description |
1 online resource (xxxvii, 448 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge handbooks |
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Routledge handbooks.
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| Contents |
Introduction to this handbook / Rahman Azari, Alice Moncaster -- Minimising embodied carbon : a question of politics not percentages / Alice Moncaster -- Climate neutral and circular built environment : right here, right now / Guillaume Habert -- Net zero in buildings and construction : use and misuse of carbon offsets / Barnardino D'Amico, Francecso Pomponi -- Characterization of links between embodied carbon and thermal mass / Matan Mayer, James Grinham -- Introduction to section 2 / Alice Moncaster, Rahman Azari -- Building decarbonization in North America / Rahman Azari -- Embodied carbon in building regulation : development and implementation in Finland, Sweden and Denmark / Freja Nygaard Rasmussen and Harpa Birgisdottir, Tove Malmqvist, Matti Kuttinen, Tarja Hakkinen -- Global carbon budgets for the built environment : how far are we to achieve a 1.5°C limit in global warming? A Swiss example / Priore Yasmine, Guillaume Habert, Thomas Jusselme -- The levels process and the life levels project : supporting the development of quality data / Borja Izaola -- Embodied carbon : knowledge building for industry / Aoife Houlihan Wiberg, Harpa Birgisdottir, Freja Nygaard Rasmussen, Tove Malmqvist, Alice Moncaster, Ben James -- Introduction to Section 3 / Rahman Azari, Alice Moncaster -- Approaches and system boundaries for urban carbon accounts / Klaus Hubacek, Yuli Shan, Shaoqing Chen -- Quantifying the sunk carbon costs of cities : a case-study of 50 years of construction in Odense, Denmark / Srinivasa Gummidi, Benjamin Goldstein, Maud Lanau, Gang Liu, Joshua Sohn, Morten Birkved -- Embodied carbon in urban transport : what is the best way to decarbonise? / Shoshanna Saxe -- Introduction to section 4 / Rahman Azari, Alice Moncaster -- Life cycle assessment applied to the eco-design of urban projects in France Bruno Peuportier, Patrick Schalbart -- Method and indicators of climate and resource footprints assessment in building information modelling / Husam Sameer, Clemens Mostert, Stefan Bringezu -- Achieving social justice, environmental justice in safe affordable housing through a materials-centered, multi-level, transdisciplinary approach / DGiulia Celentano, Esther Obonyo, and Guillaume Habert -- Embodied carbon and building retrofit; an example / Freya Wise -- Introduction to Section 5 / Alice Moncaster, Rahman Azari -- Real and apparent variations in embodied carbon impacts within specific construction materials / Jane Anderson -- Three windows : accounting for embodied resources and cultural value / Lynette Widder, Christoph Meinrenken -- Embodied carbon in biogenic and earth materials : accounting for the work of the biogeosphere in construction materials / William W. Braham, Miaomiao Hou, Suryakiran Prabhakaran, David Tilley -- Farm to building : catalyzing the use of net-zero, natural, and healthier building materials / Lola Ben-Alon |
| Summary |
"This handbook explores the critically important topic of embodied carbon, providing advanced insights that focus on measuring and reducing embodied carbon from across the built environment, including buildings, urban areas and cities, and construction materials and components"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Rahman Azari, PhD., is an architect, Associate Professor of architecture, and Director of the Resource and Energy Efficiency [RE2] Lab at the Pennsylvania State University (USA). Alice Moncaster, PhD., is a civil and structural engineer by background, whose work in industry has strongly influenced her subsequent career in academia |
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Print version record |
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Building materials -- Environmental aspects -- Case studies
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Carbon dioxide mitigation -- Case studies
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Sustainable buildings -- Case studies
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Sustainable architecture -- Case studies
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Building materials -- Environmental aspects
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Carbon dioxide mitigation
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Sustainable architecture
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Sustainable buildings
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Azari, Rahman, 1979- editor.
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Moncaster, Alice, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781003277927 |
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1003277926 |
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9781003820123 |
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1003820123 |
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