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Towards Implementation of Sustainability Concepts in Developing Countries de Chaham Alalouch

Towards Implementation of Sustainability Concepts in Developing Countries: Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation

Editat de Chaham Alalouch, Cristina Piselli, Francesco Cappa
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 oct 2021
This book focuses on sustainability concepts in architecture and urban design, environmental issues, and natural resources. Today it has become essential to reduce carbon emissions, protect habitats, and preserve the delicate ecosystems of our planet. Accordingly, sustainable development has to be improved by decreasing the consumption of non-renewable resources, in order to help nature replenish itself.

Further, it highlights the efforts that have been made by architects, environmentalists, engineers, students, planners and everyone in between in order to improve sustainability in various developing communities and countries.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030743482
ISBN-10: 3030743489
Pagini: 324
Ilustrații: XV, 324 p. 214 illus., 183 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 210 x 279 mm
Greutate: 1 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2021
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Seria Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Evaluation of the Sustainable Building Materials for Economic Housing in Egypt.- The Architectural Design of Outdoor Spaces in Oncology Hospitals. Toward Achieving Social Sustainability for Oncology Patients.- Visual Comfort in Elder Care Facilities: Promoting Environmental Gerontology Theory.- The Relation Between Walking and Urban Form: Identifying Gaps in Egyptian Literature.- Heritage Sites: Towards Creative Ambiance in Public Spaces Attached - Impact of Creative Ambiance on Societal Development.- Understanding challenges/barriers and the motivations of farmers to adopt Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs): case study of Sumerpur Tehsil of Rajasthan, India.- Sustainable Living Fences (SLF): To Develop the Function and Form of Universities’ Fences. (Based on Value Architecture).- Toward a Sustainable Design of the Rehabilitation Centers For Addiction.- Toward Resiliency through Sustainable Urban Formation in Baghdad.- Improving Sustainability in Indian Cities through Expansion of Edible Green Spaces: Exploring Million Plus Cities of Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad.

Notă biografică

Chaham Alalouch is an architect, researcher and educator with a background in urbanism. He writes and speaks on how to improve people’s quality of life through sustainable and smart built environment. He holds a Ph.D. from Heriot-Watt University (HWU), UK; and a PG Dip. in Architectural Design; and B.Sc. in Architectural Engineering from the University of Aleppo, Syria. His research was awarded the MacFarlane Prize by HWU, and the Highly Commended Award by the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence, UK. In 2019, he received the Distinguished Academician Award from Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. He has authored, co-authored, and co-edited a large number of peer-reviewed articles, technical reports, and books covering a wide range of topics, including the sustainable and smart design and construction of buildings and cities. He is involved in the Oman Eco House project and currently undertaking research in architectural pedagogy and the “livability” of eco-architecture. He is also one of the editors of the Springer book series: Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. He has held invited talks and keynote speeches at international conferences in Spain and Italy. He serves as a reviewer for several respected journals, and has reviewed papers for various international conferences. He currently works at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman.

Cristina Piselli received her master’s degree in Building Engineering - Architecture from the University of Perugia, Italy, in 2014, and her Ph.D. in Energy and Sustainable Development from the University of Perugia, Italy, in 2018. She is currently a research fellow at CIRIAF - Interuniversity Research Centre on Pollution and Environment “Mauro Felli”, Department of Engineering, at the same university, where she is a member of the EAP Lab (Environmental Applied Physics Laboratory) team, investigating building energy efficiency and, specifically, dynamic analysis of building energy performance, occupant behaviour, human comfort in the built environment, urban heat island mitigation, and energy systems.

Francesco Cappa is a post-doctoral researcher at the “ReBooT - Research Centre in Business Transformation” and at the “Centre for Research in Leadership, Innovation, and Organization”, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy. He holds a Ph.D. in Management from LUISS Guido Carli University and, during his Ph.D. studies, was a visiting researcher at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering (USA) and Pace University Seidenberg School of Computer Science (USA). His main research interests are in areas of crowd involvement, with a particular focus on innovation and sustainability issues. His papers have been published in Research Policy, Business Horizons, Computers in Human Behaviour, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Sustainability, PloS One, and Energy.

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This book focuses on sustainability concepts in architecture and urban design, environmental issues, and natural resources. Today it has become essential to reduce carbon emissions, protect habitats, and preserve the delicate ecosystems of our planet. Accordingly, sustainable development has to be improved by decreasing the consumption of non-renewable resources, in order to help nature replenish itself.

Further, it highlights the efforts that have been made by architects, environmentalists, engineers, students, planners and everyone in between in order to improve sustainability in various developing communities and countries.

Caracteristici

Examines the concept of sustainability, strategies to improve its impact in developing countries Covers many different applications for enhancing quality of life and the built environment in developing countries Enriches readers’ understanding of key sustainability concepts in architecture and urban design