Climate: Design: Design and Planning for the Age of Climate Change - Hardcover

AECOM

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0982060718 ISBN 13: 9780982060711

Verlag: Oro Editions, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Climate change and dwindling global resources bring with them a set of complex challenges, demanding new design and planning approaches that achieve more with less. Climate: Design, written for designers, architects, planners, policymakers, and academics alike, explores the current paradigm shift and illustrates how new thinking can convert investments in urban infrastructure, land use, and development into resilient and enduring support systems for human and environmental prosperity. Author Peter Droege, an acknowledged expert in the field of renewable, sustainable design, joins forces with pioneering design firm EDAW, to focus on radical solutions and planning measures for combating climate change, and for attempting to adjust to life on a warming planet. The book explores both the current paradigm shift and design and planning practice ? and how to apply professional expertise to mitigate the human causes of climate change, and adapt to its already inevitable impacts.

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AECOM is a collaborative design and engineering company working in all contexts at all scales, with a shared purpose: to enhance and sustain the world's built, natural and social environments. Around the world, AECOM brings together the following capabilities: Architecture, Building Engineering, Design + Planning, Economics, Energy, Environment, Government Services, Programme + Construction Management, Transportation and Water. An initiative of AECOM's Design + Planning practice, Climate Design is part of the company's deepening innovation in climate change mitigation and low carbon development. AECOM's designers and planners are dedicated to responsible and productive use of the land, and seek to create, restore and steward urban and natural environments. Whether detailed designs, physical plans, or broad policy frameworks, they offer solutions that promote sustainable use of resources and enhance quality of life. Professor Peter Droege is an authority on renewable energy, urban design, development, and infrastructure. He serves as Expert Commissioner on Cities and Climate Change to the World Future Council and as a Steering Committee Member of the Urban Climate Change Research Network, and he is Asia Pacific Chair of the World Council for Renewable Energy. Professor Droege is author of The Renewable City, Urban Energy Transition, and 100% Renewable Energy Autonomy in Action.

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Climate change and dwindling global resources bring with them a set of complex challenges, demanding new design and planning approaches that achieve more with less. Climate: Design, written for designers, architects, planners, policymakers, and academics alike, explores the current paradigm shift and illustrates how new thinking can convert investments in urban infrastructure, land use, and development into resilient and enduring support systems for human and environmental prosperity. Author Peter Droege, an acknowledged expert in the field of renewable, sustainable design, joins forces with pioneering design firm EDAW, to focus on radical solutions and planning measures for combating climate change, and for attempting to adjust to life on a warming planet. The book explores both the current paradigm shift and design and planning practice -- and how to apply professional expertise to mitigate the human causes of climate change, and adapt to its already inevitable impacts.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oro Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0982060718
• ISBN 13: 9780982060711
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280
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