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Characteristics of the built environment in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East and related energy and climate policies
The Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (EMME) region hosts some of the world’s most influential and troubled cities. It is also a hotspot of...
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Energy, Environment, and Sustainable Development
Sustainability is recognized by many as an ultimate goal to achieve a better future. The current chapter extensively presents the dimensions of...
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SLODs in Urban Built Environment
Climate change evidence has been reported in the last decades, suggesting that the anthropogenic activities are accelerating these changes towards a...
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Alternative Building Materials for a Sustainable Built Environment: A Literature Review
The Industrial Revolution altered how people worked, the technologies at their disposal, and, in many cases, where they lived. It made life easier...
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Wellbeing and Social Health in the Built Environment
The physical environment is critical to human experience and sustainable habitation, with multiplex impacts on people’s experience. Physical settings...
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4th International Conference "Coordinating Engineering for Sustainability and Resilience" & Midterm Conference of CircularB “Implementation of Circular Economy in the Built Environment”
This open access book gathers the proceedings of the 4th International Conference “Coordinating Engineering for Sustainability and Resilience”...
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Health, the Circular Economy, and Our Built Environment
Covid-19 rapidly highlighted the significance of good public health, similarly, showing that our built environment is crucial in responding to global...
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Renewable Energy Options and Built Environment in the Gulf Cooperation Countries Adapting to Combat Climate Change
This study utilizes the long-term data (1955–2022) of the weather parameters recorded in Bahrain, as well as other studies on Gulf Cooperation...
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Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainability Characteristics of Built Environment Systems
The sustainable built environment concept has recently gained enormous attention from academic and industrial organizations. The growth in...
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The Resilience Principles of the Built Environment in Light of Climate Change and the Post-pandemic Era
Several challenges and emerging opportunities were already confronting cities at the time of the COVID-19 outbreak, including climate change, digital...
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Sustainable Environment
A human, animals, or plants/any living organism is a part of an ecological community. They, as a part of ecology, lives/operates with the...
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A State-of-the-Art Approach for Assessing the Environmental Sustainability of Multi-renewable Energy Systems in the Built Environment
To better understand the environmental impact of energy systems, this study introduces an overview of the concept of energy efficiency and best...
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Ultralight Membrane Structures Toward a Sustainable Environment
The building construction industry is the largest anthropogenic source of pollution, with massive energy consumption and substantial CO2 emissions....
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Implementing Nature-Based Solutions for a Circular Urban Built Environment
This short review outlines the implementation of nature-based solutions in the urban built environment which can contribute to a circular economy as...
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Integration of Small-Scale Wind Turbines in Sustainable and Energy Efficient Buildings
The integration of renewable energy resources in buildings is one way of achieving energy efficient and sustainable buildings (zero-energy buildings...
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Indigenous cosmologies of energy for a sustainable energy future
Energy development in Indigenous lands has been historically controversial from socio–ecological and ethical perspectives. Energy-development...
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Focus on Skills for a Circular Built Environment in a New Curriculum Development
Despite the increased research regarding the sustainability transition towards the circular economy (CE) model, the existing literature on adopting...
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Data Anonymization and Open Sharing Are Key to a Sustainable Built Environment
Research on building energy systems is shifting toward data-driven modelling due to the complications of setting up physics-based models. Data-driven...
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Blockchain and Sustainable Energy
Blockchain is a relatively new technology that can provide security, transparency, and integrity to digital data. These properties are particularly...
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The Role of Professionals Involved in the Built Environment in Contributing to Climate Change Adaptation in Sri Lanka
Climate change (CC) has turned into a global challenge, and its ramifications have continued to affect, endanger, and influence most people's...