Plant-Forward Cuisine is a beautifully illustrated book that promotes the environmental and health benefits of a plant-forward diet and will inspire readers with a range of exciting recipes.
The Science of People and Office Design: Planning for Thinking, Discussing and Achieving has been written for practitioners who would like to apply evidence-based and human-centric design principles to office and workplace design.
This book includes peer reviewed article from the 2nd International Conference on Trends in Architecture and Construction (ICTAC-2024) held at Chandigarh in India.
This book proposes an economic and environmental assessment tool to help private and public building designers and owners determine the global sustainability value of green buildings from a life cycle perspective.
In its first edition, Principles of Clinical Medicine for Space Flight established itself as the authoritative reference on the contemporary knowledge base of space medicine and standards of care for space flyers.
El libro propone un recorrido del exterior al interior: comienza por el emplazamiento y su entorno, sigue por las diversas envolventes del edificio y termina con el análisis de los aspectos ambientales de la iluminación, la calefacción y los sistemas de climatización.
This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 8th International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development (ICSUD 2022), held at the Vietnamese-German University (VGU) in Vietnam.
Extreme weather events, droughts, floods, shifts in precipitation and temperature patterns, melting glaciers, sea-level rise, water salinization, and more generally, changes in the water cycle remind us that the climate crisis is mostly a water crisis.
In May 2019, the United Nations released the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services which warned that human activities will drive nearly one million species to extinction in a few decades.
This book delves into the transformative potential of neuromorphic computing within the realm of civil engineering, emphasizing its role in advancing smart infrastructure systems.
Dieses Buch erklärt, was die ESG-Kriterien Umwelt, Soziales und Governance für die Immobilienbranche bedeuten und wie Unternehmen nachhaltiges Wirtschaften in der Praxis umsetzen können.
The interchange is a new form of transport building which integrates into a single whole various modes of public transport, putting the passenger first (rather than the infrastructure).
This book responds to the need for a comprehensive and detailed theoretical framework and systemic design approaches to improve mental, physical, social, behavioral, and ecological health in urban environments.
Dieses Buch erklärt, was die ESG-Kriterien Umwelt, Soziales und Governance für die Immobilienbranche bedeuten und wie Unternehmen nachhaltiges Wirtschaften in der Praxis umsetzen können.
Vivimos, desde hace más de un siglo, la época de las grandes ciudades y, coincidentemente, el tiempo de las grandes guerras, una época caracterizada por la destrucción monumental.
Este libro describe qué es la educación Montessori una educación para la vida y en la diversidad, los fundamentos filosóficos y las características principales de un enfoque en el que el niño es el protagonista de su propio aprendizaje, en el cual aprende haciendo, en interacción con un ambiente creado especialmente por un educador preparado que tiene una mirada integral del niño, y lo guía para que pueda desplegar sus habilidades y máximo potencial.
El objetivo de este libro es acercar a los estudiantes, investigadores e interesados en la temática de la arquitectura un panorama del debate actual sobre el proyecto arquitectónico y sus mutuas implicancias en la sustentabilidad.
This book is a great opportunity to make the research community discuss the dangerous environmental challenges such as climate change and its huge effects in addition to the world's reliance on fossil fuel and non-renewable resources.
The book contains the latest studies on digitalization of transport and logistics, improving vehicle fuel efficiency, information technology and digital security, land management and cadastres, building structures, structural analysis, and energy conservation in construction.
Doing research is an essential element of almost all programmes in planning studies as well as related areas such as geography and urban studies, from undergraduate, through Masters to doctoral programmes.
This book presents select proceedings of National Conference on Advances in Sustainable Construction Materials (ASCM 2020) and examines a range of durable, energy-efficient, and next-generation construction materials produced from industrial wastes and by-products.
There is a dearth of collections of scholarly works dedicated wholly to African issues, that comes out of the work done by African scholars and practitioners with both African collaborators and from elsewhere.
This book includes papers on intelligent expert systems and sustainability applications in the areas of data science, image processing, wireless communication, risk assessment, healthcare, intelligent social network mining, and energy.
The book reviews and reports the recent progress and knowledge on the specific impact of current and projected urban overheating as well as of the urban mitigation technologies on mortality and morbidity and urban vulnerability.
The book comprehensively investigates the relationship between critical urban form and fabric parameters and urban microclimate in the high-rise urban environment that prevails in Asian megacities such as Shanghai.
This book of CRIOCM 2021 (26th International Conference on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate) presents the latest developments in real estate and construction management around the globe.
This book presents a very useful and valuable collection of chapters associated with recent developments in energy, environment, and nanotechnology including nanofluids dynamics.
This edited volume is a compilation of peer-reviewed papers of the plenary lectures, keynote lectures, special lectures and young researcher's special lectures delivered at the 1st International Symposium on Construction Resources for Environmentally Sustainable Technologies (CREST 2020) organized by Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
This book presents articles from the Second International Conference on Sustainable Civil Engineering and Architecture, held on 30 October 2021 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
