Building Governance and Climate Change

Name: Building Governance and Climate Change
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780815395201
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This book explores the role of building regulatory systems in addressing climate change, examining their development, current shortcomings, and potential innovative policy solutions. It offers a comprehensive analysis of how these systems can evolve to better mitigate and adapt buildings to the challenges of climate change, enhancing long-term energy efficiency.
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Ideal for professionals and scholars in environmental policy, architecture, urban planning, and anyone interested in the intersection of building regulations and climate change mitigation.

This book investigates how building regulatory systems are addressing the current and future effects of climate change, and how these systems can be improved. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Building Research & Information journal.

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The contribution of buildings to climate change is widely acknowledged. Building Governance and Climate Change investigates how building regulatory systems are addressing the current and future effects of climate change, and how these systems can be improved.

After presenting a comprehensive overview of how the current building regulatory system developed, some of the inadequacies are identified. The largest part of the book examines the potential for innovative policy solutions to address the real-world problem of mitigating and adapting buildings to climate change.

This publication contributes significantly to our understanding of the complexities of long-term energy efficiency in buildings.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the Building Research & Information journal.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780815395201

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 April 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Routledge

Contributors:

Edited by Richard Lorch
Edited by Jacques Laubscher
Edited by Edwin Hon-wan Chan
Edited by Henk Visscher

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 219.0mm

Height: 276.0mm

Weight: 630g

Pages: 242

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Richard Lorch studied architecture at Washington University, USA, and the University of Cambridge, UK, and is a licensed architect. He is a researcher, writer, policy consultant on energy and buildings, and the editor in chief of Building Research & Information.

Jacques Laubscher is a practising architect and academic. He is currently head of the technology research group in the Department of Architecture at the Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa.

Edwin H. W. Chan is a Chartered Architect (Authorized Person), Chartered Surveyor and also a Barrister-at-Law called to the UK and Hong Kong Bars. He obtained his Ph.D. from King’s College, University of London, UK.

Henk Visscher is Full Professor in Housing Quality and Process Innovation at Delft University of Technology, where he is director of the Graduate School in the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment.