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

Santamouris, Mattheos

Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc（2018/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 352 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780128114179
• DDC分類 621.042

Full Description

Minimizing Energy Consumption, Energy Poverty and Global and Local Climate Change in the Built Environment: Innovating to Zero analyzes three major issues of the built environment, including the political, economic and technical contexts, the impacts of global and local climate change, and the technical and social characteristics of energy poverty. In addition, the book addresses the causes and reasons for the magnitude and characteristics of the built environment's energy consumption.

Users will find a fresh view of energy consumption in the built environment, especially in relation to energy poverty and climate change from the ZERO energy world perspective.

Contents

1. Introduction2. Energy Consumption and Environmental Quality of the Building Sector3. Urban Heat Island and Local Climate Change4. Energy Poverty and Urban Vulnerability 5. Defining the Synergies Between Energy Consumption - Local Climate Change and Energy Poverty6. Defining the Future Targets7. Technological - Economic and Social Measures to Decrease the Energy Consumption of the Building Sector8. Mitigating the Local Climatic Change and Fighting Urban Vulnerability9. Eradicating the Energy Poverty in the Developed World10. Concluding Remarks and Policy Proposals