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UNINA9910959267003321 |
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Kendall Stephen |
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Residential open building / / Stephen Kendall and Jonathan Teicher |
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London; ; New York, : E&FN Spon, 2000 |
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1-135-80676-4 |
1-135-80677-2 |
1-280-40107-9 |
9786610401079 |
0-203-23521-5 |
0-203-05676-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (314 p.) |
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Dwellings - Design and construction |
Open plan (Building) |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; What is residential Open Building?; Acknowledgments; A RESIDENTIAL OPEN BUILDING PRIMER; Introduction; Incubators of Open Building; A brief interpretive history of Open Building; A SURVEY OF MILESTONE PROJECTS; Case studies; METHODS AND PRODUCTS; Technical overview; Methods and systems by level; A survey of infill systems, products and companies; ECONOMIC AND ADDITIONAL FACTORS; The economics of Open Building; Additional trends toward Open Building; SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; Open Building activity by nation; The future of Open Building |
Realized Open Building and related projects by nationThe SAR Tissue Method; International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB); Glossary; Index |
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Residential Open Building, the result of a CIB Task Group 'Open Building Implementation', provides a state-of-the-art review of open building, fundamental principles, recent developments, and |
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international coverage of current projects on both the public and private arena. Open Building is a highly flexible and economical method of building which has far reaching advantages for urban designers, architects, contractors, developers and end users. |
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UNINA9910959581503321 |
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Sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem services in soils and sediments / / edited by Diana H. Wall ; [foreword by Harold A. Mooney] |
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Washington, : Island Press, c2004 |
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1-59726-785-6 |
1-4356-4859-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (275 p.) |
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Collana |
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Soil ecology - Economic aspects |
Biodiversity - Economic aspects |
Ecosystem management |
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"A project of SCOPE, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, of the International Council for Science." |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Figures and Tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Ch. 1: The Need for Understanding How Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Affect Ecosystem Services in Soils and Sediments; Part I: Ecosystem Processes and the Sustainable Delivery of Goods and Services; Ch. 2: The Sustainable Delivery of Goods and Services Provided by Soil Biota; Ch. 3: Ecosystem Services Provided by Freshwater Benthos; Ch. 4: Marine Sedimentary Biota as Providers of Ecosystem Goods and Services |
Part II: Assessment of the Vulnerability of Critical Below-Surface Habitats, Functions, and TaxaCh. 5: Vulnerability to Global Change of Ecosystem Goods and Services Driven by Soil Biota; Ch. 6: Vulnerability and Management of Ecological Services in Freshwater Systems; Ch. 7: Vulnerability of Marine Sedimentary Ecosystem Services to Human Activities; Part III: Connections Between Soils and Sediments: |
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Implications for Sustaining Ecosystems; Ch. 8: Connecting Soil and Sediment Biodiversity: The Role of Scale and Implications for Management |
Ch. 9: Cascading Effects of Deforestation on Ecosystem Services Across Soils and Freshwater and Marine SedimentsCh. 10: Understanding the Functions of Biodiversity in Soils and Sediments Will Enhance Global Ecosystem Sustainability and Societal Well-Being; Contributors; SCOPE Series List; SCOPE Soil and Sediment Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (SSBEF) Committee Publications; SCOPE Executive Committee 2001-2004; Index |
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Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Soils and Sediments brings together the world's leading ecologists, systematists, and evolutionary biologists to present scientific information that integrates soil and sediment disciplines across terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems. |
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