Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Sustainability & Green Design

Desert Paradises: Surveying the Landscapes of Dubai’s Urban Model explores how designed landscapes can play a vital role in constructing a city’s global image and legitimizing its socio-political hierarchy. Using the case study of Dubai, Bolleter explores how Dubai’s rulers employ a paradisiacal image of greening the desert, in part, as a tool for political legitimization.

Bolleter also evaluates the designed landscapes of Dubai against the principles of the United Nations and the International Federation of Landscape Architects and argues that what is happening...

This book contains the proceedings of the 13th KES International Conference on Sustainability and Energy in Buildings 2021 (SEB2021) held in Split, Croatia, during 15–17 September 2021 organized by KES International. SEB21 invited contributions on a range of topics related to sustainable buildings and explored innovative themes regarding sustainable energy systems. The conference formed an exciting chance to present, interact and learn about the latest research and practical developments on the subject.  The conference attracted submissions from around the world.  Submissions...

The aim of this book is to bring together multidisciplinary research in the field of green infrastructure design, construction and ecology. The main core of the volume is constituted by contributions dealing with green infrastructure, vegetation science, nature-based solutions and sustainable urban development.

The green infrastructure and its ecosystem services, indeed, are gaining space in both political agendas and academic research. However, the attention is focused on the services that nature is giving for free to and for human health and survival. What if we start to see...

This book assesses the application of the calcium looping technology for CO2 capture from cement plants. The cement industry contributes significantly to the anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Due to process inherent CO2 emissions, the application of CCS technologies is inevitable to fully decarbonise the cement sector and mitigate climate change. A comprehensive study regarding the suitability of various potential sorbents (i.e. limestone, raw meal and raw meal components) acting as CO2 carrier has been conducted using thermogravimetric analysis. Various integration options of the calcium...

Materialien und die entsprechenden vielfältigen Weiterverarbeitungstechnologien sind von entscheidender Relevanz für Schaffende in den Bereichen Produktdesign, Architektur und der bildenden Künste, stellen sie doch die Ausgangsbasis für jedes Produkt und jede Architektur dar.

Das Buch versammelt enzyklopädisch rund 1.000 Termini dieses Fachgebietes vom Aerogel über Marmor bis hin zu Zirkonium. Dabei spielen sowohl traditionelle und sehr häufig verwendete Materialien eine Rolle, als auch neue Werkstoffe und sehr wenig bekannte Materialien. Ihre jeweiligen Vor- und Nachteile...