Life cycle assessment in the built environment / / Robert H. Crawford

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459834103321
• Autore: Crawford Robert <1978-, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Spon Press, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-135-24508-8; 1-283-10233-1; 9786613102331; 1-135-24509-6; 0-203-86817-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 624.1/8
• Soggetti: Building materials - Service life; Buildings - Environmental aspects; Building materials - Recycling; Product life cycle; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Life Cycle Assessment in the Built Environment; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Global environmental issues and the built environment; 1.1 Global warming and climate change; 1.2 Pollution; 1.3 Resource depletion; 1.4 Production and disposal of waste; 1.5 The built environment; 1.5.1 The built environment life cycle and its related environmental impacts; 1.5.1.1 Raw material extraction; 1.5.1.2 Manufacturing; 1.5.1.3 Construction; 1.5.1.4 Operation and maintenance; 1.5.1.5 End-of-life (demolition, disposal, reuse and recycling)1.6 Summary; 2 Towards a sustainable built environment; 2.1 Minimizing the environmental impact of the built environment; 2.2 Designing for the environment: strategies for a sustainable built environment; 2.2.1 Resource efficiency; 2.2.2 Minimizing non-renewable resource consumption; 2.2.3 Minimizing pollution; 2.2.4 Designing for ; disassembly; 2.2.5 Minimizing solid waste production; 2.2.6 Designing for recyclability; 2.2.7 Designing for durability; 2.2.8 Designing for adaptive reuse; 2.3 An integrated approach to environmental design2.4 Environmental assessment: an essential component of environmental design; 2.5 Origins and historical perspective of environmental assessment; 2.6 Environmental assessment in the twenty-first century; 2.7 Approaches to environmental assessment; 2.7.1 Assessment tools; 2.7.2 Simulation tools; 2.7.3 Checklists and guidelines; 2.8 Summary; 3 Life cycle assessment; 3.1 What is life cycle assessment?; 3.1.1 Life cycle assessment framework; 3.1.2 An iterative approach; 3.2 Types of life cycle assessment; 3.2.1 Baseline life cycle assessment; 3.2.2 Comparative life cycle assessment3.2.3 Streamlined life cycle assessment; 3.3 The four phases of life cycle assessment; 3.3.1 Goal and scope definition; 3.3.1.1 Goals; 3.3.1.2 Scope; 3.3.1.3 Functional unit; 3.3.1.4 System boundaries; 3.3.1.5 Data quality and scope; 3.3.2 Life cycle inventory analysis; 3.3.2.1 Data types; 3.3.2.2 Quantifying inputs and outputs; 3.3.3 Life cycle impact assessment; 3.3.3.1 Selection and definition of impact categories; 3.3.3.2 Classification; 3.3.3.3 Characterization; 3.3.3.4 Normalization, grouping and weighting; 3.3.3.5 Data quality analysis; 3.3.4 Interpretation3.3.4.1 Identification of significant issues; 3.3.4.2 Evaluation of results - completeness, consistency and sensitivity; 3.3.4.3 Conclusions, limitations and recommendations; 3.4 How can life cycle assessment be used?; 3.4.1 Environmental improvement; 3.4.2 Strategic planning; 3.4.3 Public policy making; 3.4.4 Marketing and eco-labelling; 3.5 International LCA standard - ISO 14040 series; 3.6 Limitations of life cycle assessment; 3.6.1 Lack of knowledge and awareness; 3.6.2 Methodological gaps; 3.6.3 Geographic issues; 3.6.4 Availability and quality of life cycle inventory data
• Sommario/riassunto: Life cycle assessment enables the identification of a broad range of potential environmental impacts occurring across the entire life of a product, from its design through to its eventual disposal or reuse. The need for life cycle assessment to inform environmental design within the built environment is critical, due to the complex range of materials and processes required to construct and manage our buildings and infrastructure systems.After outlining the framework for life cycle assessment, this book uses a range of case studies to demonstrate the innovative input-output-based hybr

Emancipation betrayed [[electronic resource] ] : the hidden history of Black organizing and white violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the bloody election of 1920 / / Paul Ortiz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783315903321
• Autore: Ortiz Paul <1964->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005
• ISBN: 0-520-94039-3; 1-59734-590-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (433 p.)
• Collana: American Crossroads ; ; 16
• Disciplina: 305.896/0730759/09034
• Soggetti: African Americans - Florida - Politics and government - 19th century; African Americans - Florida - Politics and government - 20th century; African Americans - Civil rights - Florida - History; African Americans - Florida - Social conditions; Racism - Florida - History - 19th century; Racism - Florida - History - 20th century; Violence - Florida - History - 19th century; Violence - Florida - History - 20th century; Florida Race relations; Florida Politics and government 1865-1950
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface: Election Day in Florida -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Slavery and Civil War -- 1. The Promise Of Reconstruction -- 2. The Struggle To Save Democracy -- 3. We Are In The Hands Of The Devil -- 4. To Gain These Fruits That Have Been Earned -- 5. To See That None Suffer -- 6. Looking For A Free State To Live In -- 7. Echoes Of Emancipation -- 8. With Babies In Their Arms -- 9. Election Day, 1920 -- Conclusion: Legacies Of The Florida Movement -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this penetrating examination of African American politics and culture, Paul Ortiz throws a powerful light on the struggle of black ; Floridians to create the first statewide civil rights movement against Jim Crow. Concentrating on the period between the end of slavery and the election of 1920, Emancipation Betrayed vividly demonstrates that the decades leading up to the historic voter registration drive of 1919-20 were marked by intense battles during which African Americans struck for higher wages, took up arms to prevent lynching, forged independent political alliances, boycotted segregated streetcars, and created a democratic historical memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Contrary to previous claims that African Americans made few strides toward building an effective civil rights movement during this period, Ortiz documents how black Floridians formed mutual aid organizations-secret societies, women's clubs, labor unions, and churches-to bolster dignity and survival in the harsh climate of Florida, which had the highest lynching rate of any state in the union. African Americans called on these institutions to build a statewide movement to regain the right to vote after World War I. African American women played a decisive role in the campaign as they mobilized in the months leading up to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. The 1920 contest culminated in the bloodiest Election Day in modern American history, when white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan violently, and with state sanction, prevented African Americans from voting. Ortiz's eloquent interpretation of the many ways that black Floridians fought to expand the meaning of freedom beyond formal equality and his broader consideration of how people resist oppression and create new social movements illuminate a strategic era of United States history and reveal how the legacy of legal segregation continues to play itself out to this day.