Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design

This book explores the connection between architecture and history, presenting a rich variety of examples from different cultures that have made human settlements, architecture, and cities.

This book specifically situates the concept of 'care' within those practices and discourses which are the entangled relationships of architecture and the humanities.

This book specifically situates the concept of 'care' within those practices and discourses which are the entangled relationships of architecture and the humanities.

A growing number of urban inhabitants are aware of pressing environmental concerns.

This timely Research Companion explores the intersection of environmental concerns, design innovation, and construction practices, detailing the principles and strategies that drive circularity in the built environment.

This timely Research Companion explores the intersection of environmental concerns, design innovation, and construction practices, detailing the principles and strategies that drive circularity in the built environment.

Climate change is no longer an abstract threat.

Ethnoscience: Insights into Nutrition and Cultural Foundations, the first book in the series Culinary Synergies: Exploring Nutrition and Science in Gastronomy, a five-book exploration into food education, innovation, and preservation, encompasses everything from flavor chemistry and sensory science to the role of micro- and macronutrients in traditional and culturally specific diets.

If you were asked to close your eyes and envision where you are happiest, would you picture somewhere inside a building?

Picture a beautiful, green neighborhood where most of your needs could be met by walking, rolling, or accessing transit.

As unprecedented heat waves, storms of the century, and devastating fires impact cities across the country, the time to create climate resilient communities is now.

Climate change is no longer an abstract threat.

If you were asked to close your eyes and envision where you are happiest, would you picture somewhere inside a building?

As unprecedented heat waves, storms of the century, and devastating fires impact cities across the country, the time to create climate resilient communities is now.

If your doorstep were a trailhead, how would you experience your city?

If your doorstep were a trailhead, how would you experience your city?

Picture a beautiful, green neighborhood where most of your needs could be met by walking, rolling, or accessing transit.

Colostrum Unveiled: The Human and Animal Benefits of Bovine Colostrum is emerging as a groundbreaking topic in the fields of health and nutrition, and this book provides a comprehensive exploration of its biological, nutritional, and clinical applications.

The Oxford Handbook of Reproductive Medicine and Family Planning, third edition provides essential practical information on the care of adolescent and reproductive age females and males.

This volume details the recent efforts of developing sustainable approaches to reclaim synthetic polymers and explore natural polymers in design production.

This volume details the recent efforts of developing sustainable approaches to reclaim synthetic polymers and explore natural polymers in design production.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure: Innovations, Challenges and Opportunities (SIIOC 2024).

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure: Innovations, Challenges and Opportunities (SIIOC 2024).

This book introduces Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) as a vital design tool for architects, urban designers, and planners.

This book introduces Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) as a vital design tool for architects, urban designers, and planners.

This book argues that the future of resilient and liveable cities depends on making ecological systems not a supplement to design, but the scaffolding upon which urban life is built.

This book presents technical knowledge already available and identifies operational-methodological flows aimed at filling the existing incomplete and jumbled procedures through the use of parametric and virtual digital models for architectural heritage.

This book presents technical knowledge already available and identifies operational-methodological flows aimed at filling the existing incomplete and jumbled procedures through the use of parametric and virtual digital models for architectural heritage.

Sustainable Visions: An Architect's Critique of Modern MauritiusBy Rambassun (Sandeep) SewpalIn this compelling and timely collection, acclaimed Mauritian architect Rambassun Sewpal offers a bold, critical examination of an island nation at a crossroads.

This book argues that the future of resilient and liveable cities depends on making ecological systems not a supplement to design, but the scaffolding upon which urban life is built.

For introductory nutrition courses for majors.

This book represents a seminal collection of advanced research, novel methodologies, and transformative practices within the domains of water resources engineering, hydraulic engineering, and hydrology, with a strong emphasis on the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in civil engineering.

This book represents a seminal collection of advanced research, novel methodologies, and transformative practices within the domains of water resources engineering, hydraulic engineering, and hydrology, with a strong emphasis on the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in civil engineering.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to integrating sustainable value-creation strategies for achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This book provides a comprehensive guide to integrating sustainable value-creation strategies for achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Addressing everything from the history of the federal agencies that enforce the regulations to the requirements of the regulations themselves, this new book provides facility managers with a comprehensive instruction manual for understanding and complying with the major Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations.

Addressing everything from the history of the federal agencies that enforce the regulations to the requirements of the regulations themselves, this new book provides facility managers with a comprehensive instruction manual for understanding and complying with the major Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations.

The average Australian household spends over $2,000 a year on gas and electricity bills.

Departing from the complex reality of cities and intending to address existing vulnerabilities from a legal perspective, this book aims to suggest the implementation of new legal frameworks which, through more adaptive mechanisms of law, can allow the realization of justice for socio-ecological resilience.

Departing from the complex reality of cities and intending to address existing vulnerabilities from a legal perspective, this book aims to suggest the implementation of new legal frameworks which, through more adaptive mechanisms of law, can allow the realization of justice for socio-ecological resilience.

This book explores the ways in which spaces of learning and growth, both physical, social, and symbolic, shape cognition, emotion, behavior, and educational outcomes.

Placing vernacular knowledge at the forefront of climate-responsive design, this book deals with the UN's SDG 11 mandate for inclusive, safe, and resilient cities.

This book explores the ways in which spaces of learning and growth, both physical, social, and symbolic, shape cognition, emotion, behavior, and educational outcomes.

Placing vernacular knowledge at the forefront of climate-responsive design, this book deals with the UN's SDG 11 mandate for inclusive, safe, and resilient cities.

This book highlights tangible advantages by illustrating methods that facilitate cleaner energy production, enhanced environmental monitoring, and stronger ecological management.

This book highlights tangible advantages by illustrating methods that facilitate cleaner energy production, enhanced environmental monitoring, and stronger ecological management.

This book, now in an updated second edition, discusses bioclimatic building design, focusing on climate-adapted and climate-resilient buildings.

This book, now in an updated second edition, discusses bioclimatic building design, focusing on climate-adapted and climate-resilient buildings.

This book encapsulates the intellectual rigor and cross-disciplinary collaboration showcased at a global forum dedicated to advancing the understanding and application of geotechnical systems in sustainable infrastructure development.

Seeding Urban Transformation explores opportunities to produce urban life afresh in the fraught presents of ecological fragility, social strain and financial inequity.