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1 online resource |
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Preface; Contents; About the Editors; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Tropics: A Region Defined by Climate; 1 Limiting Climate Change by Limiting CO2; 2 Limits Defined by the Paris Climate Agreement; 3 Climate Change in the Tropics; References; Part I: The Sustainability of the Built Environment; Chapter 2: Climate Change and the Sustainability of the Built Environment in the Humid Tropic of Indonesia; 1 Introduction; 2 Indonesia as a Tropical Developing Country; 3 Problems of Improving the Wellbeing in the Developing Countries; 4 Climate, Development and Energy Consumption |
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5 Mitigating Climate Change Without Sacrificing the Country's Development; References; Chapter 3: Climate Change and the Built Environment in the Tropics -- Is Carbon Enough to Assess Human Impact?; 1 Carbon and Ecological Footprint; 2 Economics and Growth; 3 Limits to Growth; 4 Policies and Footprints; 4.1 Energy; 4.2 Housing; 4.3 Personal Transport; 4.4 Food; 5 Conclusions; References; Chapter 4: Monitoring Climate Change Adaptation: Lessons from Scotland; 1 Introduction; 2 Concepts Underlying the Notion of Adaptation; 3 Different Classes of Indicators; 4 Climate Change as a 'Wicked Problem' |
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5 The UK Climate Change Risk Assessment Programme (CCRA); 6 The Scottish Climate Change Adaptation Programme (SCCAP); 7 Challenges and Lessons; 8 Conclusions; References; Chapter 5: The Sustainable Portion of Gross Domestic Product: A Proposed Social Ecological Economic Indicator for Sustainable Economic Development; 1 Introduction; 2 Sustainable Development Goals; 2.1 Environment; 2.2 Society; 2.3 Economy; 3 Sustainability Indicators; 3.1 Economic Indicators; 3.1.1 Gross Domestic Product (GDP); 3.1.2 Adjustment to GDP; 4 Sustainable Portion of GDP (GDPs); 4.1 GDPs Equation |
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4.1.1 Ecological Footprint (EF); 4.2 The Main Characteristics of GDPs; 4.2.1 Social-cultural Characteristics; 4.2.2 Environmental Characteristics; 5 Case Study: Otago Central Rail Trail (OCRT); 5.1 Otago Central Rail Trail (OCRT) -- Background; 5.2 OCRT: Ecological Footprint; 5.3 The EF of Sustainable Living; 5.4 The Overshoot Portion of OCRT EF- Energy; 5.5 OCRT: Economic Gross (GDP); 5.6 The Cost of Generating Energy Through Using Renewable Energy Sources; 5.6.1 First Scenario; 5.6.2 Second Scenario; 6 Conclusion; References |
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Chapter 6: Sustainable Transport: A Comparison of Ecological Footprint and Travel Patterns in Three Cities in Vietnam, New Zealand and Finland; 1 Introduction; 2 Travel Patterns in the Three Cities; 2.1 Mode of Travel; 2.2 Travel Distance; 2.3 Travel by Purpose; 3 Higher Density?; 4 Transport Footprints; 5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: Smart Community Energy Systems for Low Carbon Living; 1 Introduction; 2 Autarky Workshop; 3 ORIGIN Project; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Supply Demand Matching; 3.3 Further Work; 4 Conclusions and Discussion; References; Part II: Adapting City for Climate Change |
| Summary |
This book offers a selection of the best papers presented during the International conference on Mitigating and Adapting Built Environments for Climate Change in the Tropics, held at Tanri Abeng University (TAU), Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2015. The book is divided into four main chapters. The first part deals with the general issue of climate change, the cause and the ways to mitigate and to adapt the built environment for climate change in a number of countries. Part 2 deals with the conceptual ways to mitigate building for climate change. The ways to reduce cooling energy in tropical buildings by means of passive design. Part 3 offers papers that examine the way to overcome disasters in the city caused by climate change. The final part deals with the role of plants in mitigating and adapting built environments to climate change - the use of plants, trees and bushes to directly and indirectly reduce carbon emissions are discussed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 1, 2017) |
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Sustainable buildings -- Tropics
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Climate change mitigation -- Tropics
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The environment.
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Sustainability.
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Human geography.
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Civil engineering, surveying & building.
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Energy technology & engineering.
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Climate change.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Reference.
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Climate change mitigation
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Sustainable buildings
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Klimaänderung
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Bauökologie
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Stadtökologie
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Klimagerechtes Bauen
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Tropics
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Tropen
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tri Harso Karyono, editor.
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Vale, Robert (Robert James Dennis), editor.
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Vale, Brenda, editor
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| ISBN |
9783319496016 |
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3319496018 |
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