Decarbonising the Built Environment: Charting the Transition - Softcover

 
9789811379420: Decarbonising the Built Environment: Charting the Transition
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9811379424 ISBN 13: 9789811379420
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Synopsis

This book focuses on the challenge that Australia faces in transitioning to renewable energy and regenerating its cities via a transformation of its built environment. Both are necessary conditions for low carbon living in the 21st century. This is a global challenge represented by the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and the IPCC’s Climate Change program and its focus on mitigation and adaptation. All nations must make significant contributions to this transformation. This book highlights the new knowledge and innovation that has emerged from research projects undertaken in the Co-operative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living between 2012 and 2019 – an initiative of the Australian Government’s Department of Industry, Science and Technology that is tasked with responding to the UN challenges. Four principal transition pathways were central to the CRC and provide the thematic structure to this volume. They focus on technology, buildings, precinct and city design, and human behaviour – and their interactions.

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About the Author

Peter Newton, PhD FASSA, is Research Professor in the Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.

Deo Prasad, PhD AO FTSE, is Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Alistair Sproul, PhD, is Professor and Head of School of Photovaltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Stephen White, PhD, is Energy Efficiency Domain Leader in the Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation in Australia.

From the Back Cover

This book focuses on the challenge that Australia faces in transitioning to renewable energy and regenerating its cities via a transformation of its built environment. Both are necessary conditions for low carbon living in the 21st century. This is a global challenge represented by the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and the IPCC’s Climate Change program and its focus on mitigation and adaptation. All nations must make significant contributions to this transformation. This book highlights the new knowledge and innovation that has emerged from research projects undertaken in the Co-operative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living between 2012 and 2019 – an initiative of the Australian Government’s Department of Industry, Science and Technology that is tasked with responding to the UN challenges. Four principal transition pathways were central to the CRC and provide the thematic structure to this volume. They focus on technology, buildings, precinct and city design, and human behaviour – and their interactions.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9811379424
ISBN 13 
9789811379420
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
587
Editor
Newton Peter, Prasad Deo, Sproul Alistair, White Stephen

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