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Presents the technologies and methods for creating sustainable communities. This book helps environmental engineers, civil engineers, architects, mechanical engineers, and energy engineers to find a common approach to building environmental friendly communities which are energy efficient.
List of contents
Chapter 1: The Tools for Sustainable Development
Chapter 2: Global Warming and Climate Change: The Mechanisms for Community Cases Toward Solutions
Part One: Architectural Design and Building in Communities
Chapter 3: Public Policy: Leadership at the local, state, national and international levels
Chapter 4: Government: The Case of Sustainable College Communities
Chapter 5: Green Buildings: standards and codes that provide environmentally sound technologies and returns on investments
Part Two: Agile Sustainable Infrastructure Systems
Chapter 6: Smart Communities: the public and private sectors integration of infrastructures, technologies and buildings
Chapter 7: Technologies, Engineering and Science
Chapter 8: The Environment, Land Use, Natural Resources Today and the Future
Part Three: Economic, Legal and Accounting Mechanisms
Chapter 9: Economics and Accounting: Life Cycle Analysis, Externalities, Markets and ROI (return on investment)
Chapter 10: Legal contracts and Power Purchase Agreements
Chapter 11: Corporate Governance and Responsibility
Model Sustainable Communities, Regions and Nation States
Chapter 12: Global Cases of Sustainable Communities
Chapter 13: Conclusions: the next generation, life styles and beyond
APPENDIX A: Sustainable Development
APPENDIX B: Greenhouse Gas Analysis
APPENDIX C: Demand Side Management
APPENDICE E: Case of Legal Mechanism: The Power Purchase Agreement (PPA)
APPENDIC F: References and Web Site Data Sources
