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A carbon primer for the built environment / Simon Foxell.
| Author/creator | Foxell, Simon |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014. |
| Description | x, 333 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Machine generated contents note: 1.Background -- Principles of climate change -- Recordings and commitments -- Overall sustainability -- Future scenarios -- Metrics and quantities -- 2.Climate and carbon -- Historical understanding -- The greenhouse effect -- The greenhouse gases -- The role of the atmosphere -- Models and projections -- Impact of temperature rise -- Climate sensitivity -- 3.Carbon sources and sinks -- Geological storage -- Other carbon reservoirs -- Global carbon budget -- Sources of emissions -- Mitigation: decarbonising supply -- 4.Carbon emissions -- Demand -- Supply and consumption -- UK energy consumption -- Demand from construction and property sectors -- Enthodiell/operational carbon -- Embodied emissions -- Operational emissions -- Carbon footprinting -- Carbon benchmarks -- Mitigation: reducing demand -- 5.Policy response -- International -- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- Rio de Janeiro -- Kyoto -- Europe -- Monitoring and reporting -- |
| Contents | Contents note continued: Emissions trading -- Low-carbon technologies -- Energy Performance of Buildings Directive -- Roachnap 2050 -- UK policy: climate change -- UK energy policy -- Local authorities -- Low-carbon buildings and construction policy -- The definition of zero carbon -- 6.Regulations and compliance -- The law -- Capping carbon -- Incentives -- Pricing carbon -- Voluntary and non-statutory means of assessing energy performance -- Detailing guidance -- 7.Strategies and solutions 1: Reducing demand -- Demand -- Life-cycle assessments -- Post-occupancy evaluation -- 8.Strategies and solutions 2: Improving efficiency -- Measurement, benchmarking and self-reporting -- Outputs: more for less -- 9.Strategies and solutions 3: Decarbonising supply -- Renewables -- Low-carbon non-renewable technologies -- Summary -- 10.Looking forward -- Global -- Europe -- UK -- Alternative futures -- 11.Making it happen -- Sectors -- Design strategies -- |
| Contents | Contents note continued: Handover, commissioning and monitoring -- Renewable and low-carbon energy generation -- 12.Adaptation -- UK climate predictions -- Extreme weather -- Urban climate -- Demography -- Risk assessment -- Design measures for a changing climate: project level -- 13.Practice -- Taking the measure -- Environmental policy -- Environmental management system -- Target setting -- Actions -- Carbon reduction plan -- 14.Facts and figures -- Energy units -- Carbon dioxide emissions -- Energy-saving measures: costs and payback periods -- Energy conversion factors -- Benchmarks -- Proposed domestic fabric energy efficiency standard and carbon compliance limits. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-319) and index. |
| LCCN | 2013023809 |
| ISBN | 9780415705578 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0415705576 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780415705585 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0415705584 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | TH880 .F69 2014 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |