Climate change has demonstrated, perhaps more than any other environmental concerns, the complexities of the human-nature interrelationship and the need for embedding a far ...
Recent claims regarding convergence and divergence between land change science and political ecology as approaches to the study of human-environment relationships and sustainability science ...
With over half of the global human population living in urban regions, urban ecosystems may now represent the contemporary and future human environment. Consisting ...
According to many authorities the impact of humanity on the earth is already overshooting the earth's capacity to supply humanity's needs. This is an ...
The modern southwestern cities of Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, and El Paso occupy lands that once supported rich desert ecosystems. Typical development activities ...
Low Carbon Development: Key Issues is the first comprehensive textbook to address the interface between international development and climate change in a carbon constrained ...
Sustainable Stockholm provides a historical overview of Stockholm's environmental development, and also discusses a number of cross-disciplinary themes presenting the urban sustainability work behind ...
Does energy consumption influence architectural style? Should more energy-efficient buildings look different? Can that "look" be used to explain or enhance their performance? Architecture ...
En el actual contexto lo local y lo global interactúan continuamente. La complejidad ha adquirido, por ello, carta de naturaleza y constituye un principio ...
In this edition of 'C3', the disappearance of the classical 'base' in architecture takes centre stage in 'Podia, Plinths and Flying House', wherein the ...
Este libro proporciona a los ingenieros la información necesaria para diseñar procesos, productos y flujos de valor sostenibles. Expone el consenso actual existente sobre ...
Today's most pressing challenges require behaviour change at many levels, from the city to the individual. This book focuses on the collective influences that ...
Cities and Nature connects environmental processes with social and political actions. The book reconnects science and social science to demonstrate how the city is ...
El proceso de certificación planteado en la Guía metodológica para los sistemas de auditoría, certificación o acreditación de la calidad y sostenibilidad en el ...
EcoHabitar es la revista en España de Bioconstrucción, Ecoarquitectura, Permacultura y Vida Sostenible que aporta soluciones viables para una nueva forma de vivir. Una ...
This third edition of Green Buildings Pay presents new evidence and new arguments concerning the institutional and business case that can be made for ...
