A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
The Built Environment and Its Policies
The built environment with its vast scale and innumerable opportunities for local action is a key element in the pursuit of sustainability, and more so in the advancement of the quintessentially environment-friendly strategies of sufficiency. If pressure on the global environment from energy use is due more to the nature of the source than to the amount of primary energy used, the built environment as an energy system can rely largely on benign passive energy means well adapted to local climate and resources. An architecture of complexity that eschews universal solutions must thus emerge in the future. The institutional framework that regulates buildings and urbanism must be updated and refined to promote rather than hinder this progression of the built environment towards environmental sufficiency.
The Built Environment and Its Policies
The built environment with its vast scale and innumerable opportunities for local action is a key element in the pursuit of sustainability, and more so in the advancement of the quintessentially environment-friendly strategies of sufficiency. If pressure on the global environment from energy use is due more to the nature of the source than to the amount of primary energy used, the built environment as an energy system can rely largely on benign passive energy means well adapted to local climate and resources. An architecture of complexity that eschews universal solutions must thus emerge in the future. The institutional framework that regulates buildings and urbanism must be updated and refined to promote rather than hinder this progression of the built environment towards environmental sufficiency.
The Built Environment and Its Policies
Boemi, Sofia-Natalia (editor) / Irulegi, Olatz (editor) / Santamouris, Mattheos (editor) / de Oliveira Fernandes, Eduardo (author)
Energy Performance of Buildings ; Chapter: 1 ; 1-15
2015-11-24
15 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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