Autore	Bueren Ellen van
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam, : IOS Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (340 p.)
Disciplina	720/.47
Collana	Sustainable urban areas
Soggetto topico	Sustainable construction Environmental policy Sustainable development
ISBN	6612880406 1-282-88040-3 9786612880407 1-60750-595-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
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Autore	Bueren Ellen van
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam, : IOS Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (340 p.)
Disciplina	720/.47
Collana	Sustainable urban areas
Soggetto topico	Sustainable construction Environmental policy Sustainable development
ISBN	6612880406 1-282-88040-3 9786612880407 1-60750-595-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- The unsettling success of governance for sustainable building -- Introduction -- The sustainability performance of the built environment -- The performance of sustainable building policies in the Netherlands -- Explaining policy success and unease: the ambiguity of sustainable development -- How to design policies addressing ambiguous, multi-actor problems? -- Research questions -- Policies in support of a sustainable built environment -- Introduction -- A brief history of environmental awareness -- How sustainable development changed environmental policy making -- A redefined relationship between environment and construction -- Changes in public policies addressing construction and environment -- Challenges for policy makers -- Suggested policy improvements: will they work? -- Policy networks: a theoretical perspective on policy making -- Introduction -- A single-actor perspective on policy making -- Taking the multi-actor context into account -- Policy networks as forms of collaborative governance -- Analysing policy networks -- Towards prescription: governing network governance -- Promises and pitfalls of meta-governance -- Conclusion -- Evaluating an evolutionary policy network approach to learning -- Introduction -- Evaluation in policy network approaches -- Learning within policy networks -- Policy learning and policy change -- An evolutionary perspective to policy learning -- Learning as processes of variation, selection and retention -- Discussion and reflection -- Methodology -- Introduction -- Research methodology -- Case selection -- Research steps and operationalisation -- Reducing diffuse zinc emisssions -- Introduction to the policy -- Methodology -- The policy process arrangements dealing with zinc -- The policy issue and its environment -- Issues in the policy process. Arenas in the policy process -- Policy networks in the policy process -- Some first observations -- Perceptions and strategies in the policy process -- Perceptions -- Strategies in the policy process -- The lessons learned -- Evaluating the learning from an evolutionary perspective -- Conclusions -- Stimulating sustainable building -- Introduction to the policy -- Methodology -- The policy process -- The policy issue and its environment -- Issues in the policy process -- Networks in the policy process -- Arenas in the policy process -- Perceptions and strategies in the policy process -- The lessons learned -- Evaluating the learning from an evolutionary perspective -- Conclusions -- Restricting urban sprawl -- Introduction to the policy -- Methodology -- Reconstruction of the policy process -- The policy issue and its environment -- Issues in the policy process -- Arenas in the policy process -- Networks in the policy process -- Some observations about the policy environment -- Perceptions and strategies in the policy process -- The lessons learned -- Evaluating the learning from an evolutionary perspective -- Conclusions -- Greening governance: lessons for policy design -- Introduction -- An evolutionary perspective to learning in policy networks -- Learning in the policy processes -- Variety in the policy process -- Selection in the policy process -- Retention in the policy process: preservation -- Retention in the policy process: regeneration -- Conclusions for policy making -- Theoretical reflection and future research -- References -- Appendix I. Methodology for Chapter 6 -- Appendix II. Methodology for Chapter 7 -- Appendix III. Methodology for Chapter 8 -- Appendix IV. Greening governance in practice: A serious game for sustainable urban renewal -- Introduction -- Supporting sustainable decision-making in urban renewal projects. The modelling environment for design impact assessment (MEDIA) -- The DUBES game -- Findings and insights -- How the evolutionary approach influenced the game design -- Summary and conclusion -- References -- Summary (English) -- Summary (Dutch) -- Curriculum Vitae.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910809300903321

Autore	Tabb Phillip
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London : , : Routledge, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (216 p.)
Disciplina	720/.47
Altri autori (Persone)	DevirenA. Senem
Soggetto topico	Sustainable architecture Architecture - Environmental aspects
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-315-23929-9 1-4094-4740-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Contents; List of Figures; About the Authors; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Origins of Green Architecture; Introduction; Early Green Design Strategies; Modern Green Antecedents; Contradictions with Modernism and Sustainability; Greening Architecture; Greening Urbanism; Temporal Landscape for Sustainability; Endnotes; 2 1960's: An Environmental Awakening; The American Dream; Early Warnings; Social Sustainability; Planning and Design Responses; Visionary Beginnings; Radical Architecture; Mainstreaming Modernism; Endnotes; 3 1970's: Solar Architecture; Impact of the 1973 Oil Embargo Active Solar Technologies Passive Solar Systems; Architectural Integration; Off-Grid And Unplugged; Solar Communities; Weaving Modernism; Endnotes; 4 1980's: Postmodern Green; Postmodernism; Conservation, Preservation and Historicism; Contemporary Vernacular; Postmodern Urbanism; Critical Regionalism; Postmodern Green Architecture; Endnotes; 5 1990's: Eco-Technology; High-Tech Architecture; Virtual Architecture; Eco-Technology; Low-Tech Hybrids; Literal Greening Of Architecture; Health Concerns; Green Certification Programs; Endnotes; 6 2000's: Sustainable Pluralism; Poly-Scaler Sustainability Biometrics Infrastructure Architecture; Sustainable Urbanism; Agricultural Urbanism; Ecological Footprint; Next Generation Green; Endnotes; 7 The Global Landscape of Green Architecture; Urban-Rural; High-Tech-Low-Tech; New-Existing; Extreme-Mainstream; X-Large-X-Small; Proliferating Green Architecture; Endnotes; 8 Conclusion; Endnotes; Index
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Autore	Kats Gregory
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Washington [D.C.], : Island Press, c2010
Descrizione fisica	xix, 258 p. : ill., map
Disciplina	720/.47
Altri autori (Persone)	BramanJon JamesMichael (Michael Joseph)
Soggetto topico	Sustainable architecture - Economic aspects Sustainable design - Economic aspects Green technology - Economic aspects
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-61091-079-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Costs and benefits of green building -- Costs and benefits of green community design -- Communities of faith building green -- Green design, climate change, and the economy : potential impacts in the United States -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Data-collection methodology -- Appendix B: Source list -- Appendix C: Green building data set -- Appendix D: Comparison of data set to LEED--new construction buildings -- Appendix E: Baselines used in cost and benefits estimates -- Appendix F: Issues in researching the cost of green building -- Appendix G: Cost of energy-efficiency and renewable-energy measures -- Appendix H: Energy-use baselines and standards -- Appendix I: Verifying the energy performance of LEED buildings -- Appendix J: Assumptions used for calculations of water savings -- Appendix K: Green building survey instrument -- Appendix L: Global assumptions for Part IV.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457953803321

Autore	Reeder Linda
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, c2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xiv, 222 p. ) : ill., maps ;
Disciplina	720/.47
Collana	Wiley book on sustainable design
Soggetto topico	Sustainable buildings - Evaluation Sustainable construction - Standards Civil & Environmental Engineering Engineering & Applied Sciences Civil Engineering
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books
ISBN	1-118-25989-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Residential rating systems : a comparison -- Commercial rating systems : a comparison -- Energy Star for residential projects -- LEED for homes -- NAHB model green home building guidelines -- National Green Building Standard -- Local and regional residential programs -- Energy Star for commercial buildings -- Green Globes -- LEED for commercial new construction -- Local and regional commercial programs -- International rating systems.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910137560903321