Sustainable Built Environments - Loftness, Vivian; Haase, Dagmar; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Part I: Sustainable Built Environment -- Bioclimatic Design -- Biofuels and Sustainable Buildings -- Daylight, Indoor Illumination, and Human Behavior -- Daylighting Controls, Performance and Global Impacts -- Facades and Enclosures, Building for Sustainability -- Geothermal Conditioning: Critical Sources for Sustainability -- Indoor Environmental Quality and Health Improvement, Evidence-Based Design for -- Natural Ventilation in Built Environment -- Passive House (Passivhaus) -- Passive Solar Heating in Built Environment -- Rating Systems for Sustainability -- Regenerative Development and Design -- Resource Repletion, Role of Buildings -- Sustainability Performance Simulation Tools for Building Design -- Sustainable and Healthy Built Environment -- Sustainable Built Environment, Introduction -- Sustainable Design and Construction, Integrated Delivery Processes and Building Information Modeling -- Sustainable Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning -- Part II: Sustainable Landscape Design and Green Roof Science and Technology -- Biodiversity in Cities, Reconnecting Humans with Nature -- Green Infrastructure and Climate Change -- Green Roof Infrastructures in Urban Areas -- Green Roof Planning in Urban Areas -- Green Roofs, Ecological Functions -- Landscape Planning for Minimizing Land Consumption -- Landscape Planning for Sustainable Water Usage -- Landscape Planning/Design of Shrinking Landscapes -- Sustainable Landscape Design, Urban Forestry, and Green Roof Science and Technology, Introduction -- Sustainable Landscapes -- Urban Forest Function, Design and Management -- Urban Redevelopment and Quality of Open Spaces.
Keywords: Buildings-Design and construction; Building; Construction; Engineering, Architectural; Regional planning; Urban planning; Energy efficiency; Landscape architecture; Landscape ecology; Sustainable development; Building Construction and Design; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Energy Efficiency; Landscape Architecture; Landscape Ecology; Sustainable Development